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For God sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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As well a well-wrought urn becomes
The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs.
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The Phoenix riddle hath more wit
By us, we two being one, are it.
So to one neutral thing both sexes fit,
We die and rise the same, and prove
Mysterious by this love.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Born:
January 22, 1572
Died:
March 31, 1631
(aged 59)
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