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CAELICA: 11 by FULKE GREVILLE

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First Line: JUNO, THAT ON HER HEAD LOVE'S LIVERY CARRIED
Last Line: REPENTANCE STILL BECOMES DESIRE'S MOTHER.

Juno, that on her head Love's livery carried,
Scorning to wear the marks of Io's pleasure,
Knew while the boy in aequinoctial tarried,
His heats would rob the heaven of heavenly treasure;

Beyond the tropics she the boy doth banish,
Where smokes must warm before his fire do blaze,
And children's thoughts not instantly grow mannish,
Fear keeping lust there very long at gaze.

But see how that poor goddess was deceived,
For women's hearts far colder there than ice,
When once the fire of lust they have received,
With two extremes so multiply the vice,
As neither party satisfying other,
Repentance still becomes desire's mother.



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