"Cupid and my Campaspe play'd At cards for kisses—Cupid paid: He stakes his quiver, bow, and arrows, His mother's doves, and team of sparrows; Loses them too; then down he throws The coral of his lips, the rose Growing one's cheek (but none knows how); With these, the crystal of his brow, And then the dimple of his chin: All these did my Campaspe win. At last he set her both his eyes— She won, and Cupid blind did rise. O Love! has she done this for thee? What shall, alas! become of me?"
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Poem: Cupid and Campaspe (c. 1584).
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John Lyly
1553 – 1606
John Lyly (Lilly or Lylie) (c. 1553 – 1606) was an English writer, best known for his Euphues (1578).
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