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Henry King - The Change
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Il sabio mude conseio: Il loco persevera. 

We lov`d as friends now twenty years and more: 
Is`t time or reason think you to give o`re? 
When though two prentiships set Jacob free, 
I have not held my Rachel dear at three. 
Yet will I not your levitie accuse; 
Continuance sometimes is the worse abuse. 
In judgment I might rather hold it strange, 
If like the fleeting world, you did not change: 
Be it your wisdom therefore to retract, 
When perseverance oft is follies act. 
In pity I can think, that what you do 
Hath Justice in`t, and some Religion too; 
For of all vertues Morall or Divine, 
We know but Love none must in Heaven shine: 
Well did you the presumption then foresee 
Of counterfeiting immortalitie: 
Since had you kept our loves too long alive, 
We might invade Heavens prerogative; 
Or in our progress, like the Jews, comprise 
The Legend of an earthly Paradise. 
Live happy and more prosperous in the next, 
You have discharg`d your old friend by the Text. 
Farewel fair Shadow of a female faith, 
And let this be our friendships Epitaph: 
Affection shares the frailty of our fate, 
When (like our selves) `tis old and out of date: 
`Tis just all humane Loves their period have, 
When friends are frail and dropping to the grave:
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