CUPID AND MY CAMPASPE: APELLES' SONG.

Cupid and my Campaspe played

At cards for kisses: Cupid paid.

He stakes his quiver, bows 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?

John Lyly.

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