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HOW HE BECAME THE VICTIM OF LOVE.
For many a crime at once to make me smart, / And a delicious vengeance to obtain, / Love secretly took up his bow again, / As one who acts the cunning coward's part; / My courage had retired within my heart, / There to defend the pass bright eyes might gain; / When his dread archery was pour'd amain / Where blunted erst had fallen every dart.