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Chapter LXXXII: 6. 'Phillis' closed eyes attracts you her to kiss,'

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Francis Pilkington, 1605.

_'She lay still and would not wake,'_

Campion and Rosseter's Book of Airs, 1601.

9, 10. Such exchange of gear, when it amounts to a complete disguise of lover as belovèd, belovèd as lover, is known as _Līlā-hāva_. A familiar English parallel is the London coster lovers' habit of exchanging hats, when out for dalliance on Hampstead Heath; here also the original or sub-conscious motif is a sense of indentity.

_Rādhā Hari Hari Rādhā-ke bani-āe sanketa--_

The station of Rādhā becoming Hari and Hari Rādhā: is a not infrequent subject of Pahārī paintings.

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Vidyāpati: Bangīya padābali; songs of the love of Rādhā and KrishnaChapter LXXXII: 6. 'Phillis' closed eyes attracts you her to kiss,'

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