‘What doth my she-advowson fly Incumbency?’
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William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910.
To Julia to Expedite Her Promise
By John Cleveland (1613–1658)
SINCE ’tis my doom, Love’s undershrieve,
Why this reprieve?
Why doth she my advowson fly
Incumbency?
Panting expectance makes us prove 5
The antics of benighted love,
And withered mates when wedlock joins,
They’re Hymen’s monkeys, which he ties by the loins
To play alas! but at rebated foins. 1
