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'May I find a woman fair,
And her mind as clear as air,
If her beaut'
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'It is a statute in deep wisdom's lore,
That for his lines none shoul'
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'The sun, which doth the greatest comfort bring
To absent friends (b'
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'Lay a garland on my hearse,
Of the dismal yew,
Maidens, willow bran'
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'Never more will I protest,
To love a woman but in jest:
For as they'
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'Like to the weake estate of a poore friend,
To whom sweet fortune h'
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'Cold Virtue guard me, or I shall endure
From the next glance a doubl'
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'I sing the fortune of a luckless pair,
Whose spotless souls now in o'
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'Flattering Hope, away and leave me,
She'll not come, thou dost decei'
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