Cupid and Campaspe

From “Alexander and Campaspe,” Act III. Sc. 5. CUPID and my Campaspe played At cards for kisses,—Cupid paid; He stakes his quiver, bow and arrows, His mother’s doves, and team of sparrows,— Loses them too; then down he throws The coral of his lip, the rose Growing on ’s cheek (but none knows how); With these the crystal of his brow, And then the dimple of his chin,— All these did my Campaspe win. At last he set her both his eyes; She won, and Cupid blind did rise. O Love! has she done this to thee? What shall, alas! become of me?

Collection: 
English
1573
John Lyly
Sub Title: 
III. Love’s Beginnings

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