Willing Mistriss E-book
Author: Aphra Behn
Genre: Literature, Poetry
Behn, Aphra (1640-1689) - Restoration dramatist, novelist, and poet; she
was the first English woman to earn her living as a writer. Behn served as
a spy in Antwerp and was imprisoned for a time for debt.
The Willing Mistriss (1673) - Originally part of the play "The Dutch
Lover," produced in 1673, it was published independently in "Poems Upon
Several Occasions" in 1684. Opening lines: Amyntas led me to a Grove, /
Where all the Trees did shade us; ...
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