William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910.
Song: ‘Phillis, men say that all my vows’Sir Charles Sedley (1639–1701)
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Are to thy fortune paid:
Alas! my heart he little knows
Who thinks my love a trade.
One berry from thy hand
More real pleasure would afford
Than all my large command.
On what the nicest maid,
Without a conscious blush, may give
Beneath the myrtle shade.