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First Line: Behold, dear mother, who was late our fear
Last Line: Who thus have brought the hermite to the court.
Alternate Author Name(s): Killegrew, Anne


(presenting to her Mother St. JOHN's Head in a Charger,
also Painted by her self)

Behold, dear Mother, who was late our Fear,
Disarm'd and Harmless, I present you here;
The Tongue tied up, that made all Jewry quake,
And which so often did our Greatness shake;
No Terror sits upon his Awful Brow,
Where Fierceness reign'd, there Calmness triumphs now;
As Lovers use, he gazes on my Face,
With Eyes that languish, as they sued for Grace;
Wholly subdu'd by my Victorious Charms,
See how his Head reposes in my Arms.
Come, joyn then with me in my just Transport,
Who thus have brought the Hermite to the Court.








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