210. HOW SPRINGS CAME FIRST

These springs were maidens once that loved,

But lost to that they most approved:

My story tells, by Love they were

Turn'd to these springs which we see here:

The pretty whimpering that they make,

When of the banks their leave they take,

Tells ye but this, they are the same,

In nothing changed but in their name.

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