"Rosania to Lucasia on her Letters"
By Katherine Philips

Transcription, correction, editorial commentary, and markup by Students and Staff at The University of Virginia, John O'Brien, Sara Brunstetter
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London : Printed by J.M. for H. Herringman, 1667This text is based on transcriptions created by the Early English Books Online Texts Creation Partnership, a library-based project directed by the University of Michigan and Oxford University. Their digital text was produced from the 1667 edition, published by Henry Herringman in London in 1667, three years after Philips's death, but with the collaboration of her late husband. We have also consulted The Collected Works of Katherine Philips, edited by Patrick Thomas (Essex: Stump Cross Books, 1990), which takes Philips's manuscript versions of her poems as its copytext. Annotations have been provided by faculty and students at the University of Virginia. For a full description of this object, see its ESTC entry.

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Philips, Katherine. "Rosania to Lucasia on her Letters". Poems by the most deservedly admired Mrs. Katherine Philips, the matchless Orinda; to which is added Monsieur Corneille's Pompey & Horace, tragedies; with several other translations out of French, Printed by J.M. for H. Herringman, 1667 , pp 144-145 . Literature in Context: An Open Anthology. http://anthologydev.lib.virginia.edu/work/Philips/philips-rosania. Accessed: 2024-04-20T02:31:35.38Z

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144 Rosania to Lucasia on her LettersTitleTitle"Rosania" refers to Mary Aubrey, a friend of Philips's from childhood. "Lucasia" refers to Ann Owen, who was Philips's closest friend and the person to whom many of her poems are addressed. This poem, unusually, sees Philips takes the voice of someone other than herself, imagining two members of her coterie writing to each other. 1Ah strike outright, or else forbear, 2Be more kind, or more severe; 3For in this checquer'dCheckeredCheckeredCheckered or full of alteration and varying character (Oxford English Dictionary). mixture I 4Cannot live, and would not die, 5And must I neither? tell me why? 6When thy Pen thy kindness tells, 7My heart transported leaps and swells.
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