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First Line: Behold what hap pygmalion had to frame
Last Line: Unhappy I, to love a stony heart.
Variant Title(s): Beauty's Lease
Subject(s): Love; Pygmalion


Behold what hap Pygmalion had to frame
And carve his proper grief upon a stone;
My heavy fortune is much like the same:
I work on flint, and that's the cause I moan.
For hapless, lo, ev'n with mine own desires,
I figured on the table of my heart
The fairest form the world's eye admires,
And so did perish by my proper art.
And still I toil to change the marble breast
Of her whose sweetest grace I do adore,
Yet cannot find her breathe unto my rest;
Hard is her heart, and woe is me therefore.
O happy he that joyed his stone and art;
Unhappy I, to love a stony heart.





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