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  • Coy Nature, (which remain'd, though aged grown,
    A beauteous virgin still, enjoy'd by none,
    Nor seen unveil'd by anyone),
    When Harvey's violent passion she did see,
    Began to tremble and to flee;
    Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree:
    There Daphne's Lover stopped, and thought it much
    The very leaves of her to touch:
    But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp'd not so;
    Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!

    Abraham Cowley (1802). “The Works of Abraham Cowley: With a Preface, Biographical and Critical by Samuel Johnson”, p.110