My DD2 is called AMORET. I've not met anyone with that name yet (I've seen one article in a magazine written by an Amoret but nothing else). It is the name of faerie queen in old english literature by Edmund Spenser C15th. Amoret, in Spenser's Faerie Queene, III. vi, xii and IV. vii, twin sister of Belphoebe. She is ?Of grace and beautie noble Paragone?, and has been married to Sir Scudamour,
Mark Akenside. 1721?1770
- Amoret
IF rightly tuneful bards decide,
If it be fix'd in Love's decrees,
That Beauty ought not to be tried
But by its native power to please,
Then tell me, youths and lovers, tell? 5
What fair can Amoret excel?
Behold that bright unsullied smile,
And wisdom speaking in her mien:
Yet?she so artless all the while,
So little studious to be seen? 10
We naught but instant gladness know,
Nor think to whom the gift we owe.
But neither music, nor the powers
Of youth and mirth and frolic cheer,
Add half the sunshine to the hours, 15
Or make life's prospect half so clear,
As memory brings it to the eye
From scenes where Amoret was by.
This, sure, is Beauty's happiest part;
This gives the most unbounded sway; 20
This shall enchant the subject heart
When rose and lily fade away;
And she be still, in spite of Time,
Sweet Amoret in all her prime.