Versos English John Lyly Poem LI. Cupid and Campaspe

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Poem LI. Cupid and Campaspe

by (1554–1606)

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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 lip, the rose Growing on’s cheek (but none knows how); With these, the crystal of his brow, And then the dimple on his chin; All these did my Campaspe win: At last he set her both his eyes— She won, and Cupid blind did rise. 2O Love! has she done this to thee? 2What shall, alas! become of me? J. Lylye