A Letter From Artemisia In The Town To Chloe In The Country Flashcards

1
Q

Who durst that stormy,

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Pathless world explore

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2
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Wrecked on the

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Dull shore

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3
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How would a woman’s tottering bark be tossed

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Where stoutest ships, the men of wit, are lost?

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4
Q

And my own self

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Thus gravely I advise

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5
Q

To make yourself the

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Fiddle of the town

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6
Q

To find th’ill humoured

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Pleasure at their head

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7
Q

Cursed if you fail, and

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Scorned though you succeed

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8
Q

That whore is scarce a more

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Reproachful name than poetess

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9
Q

Like men that marry

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Or maids that woo

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10
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Me thinks I stand in

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Thorns til I begin

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11
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And who and

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Who’s together

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12
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In verse by your command I write

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The lofty flights of dangerous poetry

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13
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Love, the most generous

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Passion of my mind

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14
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The softest refuge

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Innocence can find

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15
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The only joy for which

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Poor me were made

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16
Q

Tis chiefly carried on by our

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Own sex; our silly sex!

17
Q

Forsake the pleasure

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To pursue the vice

18
Q

The action love,

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The passion is forgot

19
Q

Even without approving,

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They desire

20
Q

Twixt good and bad,

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Whimsy decides, not choice

21
Q

At his request, thought

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Much against his will

22
Q

Hard fate

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Of husbands

23
Q

Rude and untaught

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Like any Indian queen

24
Q

Being known creates

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Their certain woe

25
Q

For half an hour in

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Compliment she run

26
Q

Should be an ass through

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Choice, not want of wit

27
Q

To her was known, everyone’s

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Fault and merit but her own

28
Q

That wretched

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Thing Corrina

29
Q

A man of wit, who found ‘twas

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Dull to love above a day

30
Q

Tis better than a good sense, than power or wealth,

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To have a love untainted, youth and health

31
Q

Whatever is

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Not common

32
Q

Affected are, that with

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Their ears they see