CUPID AND MY CAMPASPE PLAY'D - John Lyly Poems

 
 

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CUPID AND MY CAMPASPE PLAY'D

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 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 to thee?
      What shall (alas!) become of me?