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Poore verdant foole! and now green Ice, thy Joys
Large and as lasting, as thy Peirch of Grasse,
Bid us lay in 'gainst Winter, Raine, and poize
Their flouds, with an o'erflowing glasse.

— Richard Lovelace Lucasta (1649)

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Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an hermitage.

Those glories come too late
That on our ashes wait.

inscription on title-page of Posthumous Poems (1659)

The gods that wanton in the air
Know no such liberty.

I could not love thee, dear, so much,
Loved I not honor more.

Lucasta (1649)

Cease, large example of wise thrift a while.

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