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I willingly accept Cassandra's fate,
To speak the truth, although believ'd too late.

— Anne Killigrew Poems (1686)

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More rich, more noble I will ever hold
The Muse's laurel, than a crown of gold.

Poems (1686)

The bloody wolf, the wolf does not pursue;
The boar, though fierce, his tusk will not embrue
In his own kind,
Bears, not on bears do prey:
Then art thou, man, more savage far than they.

Poems (1686)

We are Diana’s virgin train,
Descended of no mortal strain:
Our bows and arrows are our goods,
Our palaces the lofty woods.
* * *
If you ask where such wights do dwell,
In what blest clime, that so excel,
The poets only that can tell.

Poems (1686)

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