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Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,
One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.
Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,
One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.
The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
Some things are of that nature as to make
One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.
Some things are of that nature as to make
One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.
Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep;
If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!
Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep;
If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!
When last the young Orlando parted from you,
He left a promise to return again
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When last the young Orlando parted from you,
He left a promise to return again
Within a hour; and pacing through the forest,
Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy,
Lo, what befell!
When at the close of each sad, sorrowing day,
Fancy restores what vengeance snatch'd away.
When at the close of each sad, sorrowing day,
Fancy restores what vengeance snatch'd away.
She's all my fancy painted her,
She's lovely, she's divine.
She's all my fancy painted her,
She's lovely, she's divine.
Sad fancies do we then affect,
In luxury of disrespect
To our own prodigal excess
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Sad fancies do we then affect,
In luxury of disrespect
To our own prodigal excess
Of too familiar happiness.
The difference is as great between
The optics seeing as the objects seen.
All manners take a read more
The difference is as great between
The optics seeing as the objects seen.
All manners take a tincture from our own;
Or come discolor'd through out passions shown;
Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies,
Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.
