Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EPIGRAM, by CHARLES COTTON


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First Line: Fie, delia, talk no more of love
Last Line: Of cuckolding my ancestors.
Subject(s): Love - Complaints


FIE, Delia, talk no more of love,
It galls me to the heart,
You threescore are, I doubt above,
For all your plast'ring art.
And therefore spare your pains you may;
For though you press me night and day,
I can't do that my soul abhors:
Or by your art's assistance, though I might
Prevail upon my appetite,
I durst not couple, though, I swear
With you, of all the world, for fear
Of cuckolding my ancestors.





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