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Katharine Philips, “To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship. 17th. July 1651”
I did not live until this time Crown’d my felicity,When I could say without a crime, I am not Thine, but Thee.This Carkasse breath’d, and walk’d, and slept, So that the world believ’dThere was a soule the motions kept; But they were all deceiv’d.For as a watch by art is wound To motion, such was… →