VIRGINS.

Hesper, moveth in heaven a light more tyrannous ever? 20

Thou from a mother's arms canst wrest her daughter asunder,

Wrest from a mother's arms her daughter woefully clinging,

Then to the burning youth his virgin beauty deliver.

Foes in a new-sack'd town, when wrought they crueller ever?

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