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THE FAIR BUT CRUEL GIRL, by                    
First Line: The nymph that undoes me is fair and unkind
Last Line: "who sees her must love; who loves her, must die"
Subject(s): Beauty;love


THE Nymph that undoes me is fair and unkind,
No less than a wonder by nature designed
She's the grief of my heart, but joy of my eye,
The cause of my flame, that never can die.

Her lips, from whence wit obligingly flows,
Has the colour of cherries, and smell of the rose;
Love and Destiny both attend on her will,
She saves with a smile, with a frown she can kill.

The desperate lover can hope no redress,
Where beauty and rigour, are both in excess:
In Celia they meet, so unhappy am I;
Who sees her must love; who loves her, must die.





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