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William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910.

Semele to Jupiter

William Congreve (1670–1729)

WITH my frailty, don’t upbraid me,

I am woman as you made me;

Causeless doubting, or despairing,

Rashly trusting, idly fearing:

If obtaining,

Still complaining;

If consenting,

Still repenting;

Most complying,

Then denying:

And to be followed, only flying.

With my frailty, don’t upbraid me:

I am woman as you made me.