Daphnis no more your wishe repeat

Title:

A Letter to Mr. Finch from Tunbridge wells, August 17th, 1685.

Primary Text:

MS F-H 283, 36-8*.
Daphnis no more your wish repeat
For my return nor mourn my stay,
Lest my wise Purpose you defeat,
And urg'd by Love I come away
My own desires I now can resist
But blindly yield if you persist

Not the reflections on . . . p[...]
Or Singing . . . which I ad[...]
But that my Love will . . . the y[...]
Thus Separate . . . Daphnis . . .
Restor'd to health . . . I
May all my Soul . . . Love apply.

Diss . . . did with . . . but Love
And by Prevailing in the Strife
Make . . . Joyfull . . . approve
Wee taste and find the Springs of Life
And thought the Muses . . .
Not . . . from Heaven . . . [...]d y[...]

All . . . d[...]y . . . expire
And . . . bus[...] . . . by [hk ..ss] [hurt?]
Joy with its . . . into the Fire
And beauty Triumphs . . . [inexpert?]
Then . . ., beautous, . . . justly Charmes
Which . . . she'll yield to Daphnis armes.

Comment:

1951 Cameron, Ph.D. Diss Chapter 18, Note 1, attempted partial reconstruction, to which I am indebted.
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