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Pluck we the rose of love: with love we'll burn,
When loving we may loved be in return.

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Love in the end grows old,
Without these arts, and spiritless and slow,
Like courser that ne'er shows his highest speed,
Unless some rival follow or precede.

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Perhaps if only once you did enjoy
The thousandth part of all the happiness
A heart beloved enjoys, returning love,
Repentant, you would surely sighing say,
"All time is truly lost and gone
Which is not spent in serving love."

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Lovers she hated, though she loved their love.

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The gift of nature, love or kindly skies,
Her negligence is nought but artifice.

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Ah cruel Love! that men alike dost slay
Dispensing now thy honey, now thy gall.
In all thou giv'st we equal danger see,
Be it thy medicine or thy malady.

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Never from a man of sense love takes advice.

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Oh marvel! Love, though born but yesterday,
Spreads wide his wings and triumphs in the fray.

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You, Honor, first you hid
The fount of love's delight,
Denying drafts to slake the lover's thirst.

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O subtle love! a thousand wiles thou hast, by humble suit, by service, or by hire, to win a maiden's hold,--a thing soon done, for nature framed all women to be won.

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