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Not at first sight, nor with a dribbed shot
- Love gave the wound, which while I breathe will bleed;
- But known worth did in mine of time proceed,
- Till by degrees it had full conquest got:
I saw and liked, I liked but loved not;
- I lov'd, but straight did not what Love decreed.
- At length to love's decrees I, forc'd, agreed,
- Yet with repining at so partial lot.
Now even that footstep of lost liberty
- Is gone, and now like slave-born Muscovite
- I call it praise to suffer tyranny;
And now employ the remnant of my wit
- To make myself believe that all is well,
- While with a feeling skill I paint my hell.