"O turn away those cruel eyes, The stars of my undoing! Or death, in such a bright disguise, May tempt a second wooing."
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"Song (The Relapse)", st. 1, in Poems and Translations (1647)
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Thomas Stanley (author)
Sir Thomas Stanley (1625 – 12 April 1678) was an English author and translator.
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