| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910. | | | | To Regina Collier, on Her Cruelty to Philaster | | By Katherine Philips (‘Orinda’) (1632–1664) |
| | | TRIUMPHANT Queen of scorn! how ill doth sit | |
| In all that sweetness, such injurious wit! | |
| Unjust and cruel? what can be your prize, | |
| To make one heart a double sacrifice? | |
| Where such ingenious rigour you do show, | 5 |
| To break his heart, you break his image too; | |
| And by a tyranny that ’s strange and new | |
| You murther him because he worships you. | |
| No pride can raise you, or can make him start, | |
| Since Love and Honour do enrich his heart. | 10 |
| Be wise and good, lest when fate will be just, | |
| She should o’erthrow those glories in the dust, | |
| Rifle your beauties, and you thus forlorn | |
| Make a cheap victim to another’s scorn; | |
| And in those fetters which you do upbraid, | 15 |
| Yourself a wretched captive may be made. | |
| Redeem the poisoned Age, let it be seen | |
| There’s no such freedom as to serve a Queen. | |
| But you I see are lately Round-head grown, | |
| And whom you vanquish you insult upon. | 20 | | | |
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