"To the fair Clarinda, who made Love to me, imagin'd more than Woman"
By Aphra Behn

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London : Joseph Knight and Francis Saunders, 1688"To the fair Clarinda, who made Love to me, imagin'd more than Woman" was first published in 1688 in a book entitled Lysidus, or, The lover in Fashion, being an account from Lycidus to Lysander, of his voyage from the Island of Love: From the French, By the same Author of the Voyage of the Isle of Love; Together with a Miscellany of New Poems, by Several Hands. The first part of the book is a translation by Aphra Behn of Paul Tallemant's French novel, Voyage de l'isle d'amour, published in 1663. The second part of the volume, the "Miscellany of New Poems," includes poems by several authors, including Behn. "The the fair Clarinda" is the last poem in the collection, and closes out the volume. We have based our text on the digital surrogate available through the Text Creation Partnership and the Oxford Text Archive.Page images are sourced from the first edition of Lysidus, provided courtesy of the John Work Garrett Library at Johns Hopkins University.

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Behn, Aphra. "To the fair Clarinda, who made Love to me, imagin'd more than Woman". Lysidus, or, The lover in Fashion, Joseph Knight and Francis Saunders, 1688 , pp 175-76 . Literature in Context: An Open Anthology. http://anthology.lib.virginia.edu/work/Behn/behn-clarinda. Accessed: 2024-05-09T14:24:06.131Z

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[TP] LYCIDUS:
OR THE
Lover in Fashion.
 Being an Account from
LYCIDUS to LYSANDER,
Of his Voyage from the
ISLAND of LOVE.
 From the French.
 By the same AUTHOR
Of the Voyage to the Isle of LOVE.
 Together with a
MISCELLANY
OF
New Poems.
 By Several HANDS. LONDON: Printed for Joseph Knight, and Francis
Saunders, at the Blew Anchor in the Lower Walk of
the New-Exchange, 1688.
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