Quote #40

Take heed of loving me.

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  1. A bracelet of bright hair about the bone.
  2. So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away.
  3. Ah cannot we As well as cocks and lions jocund be, After such pleasures?
  4. Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much That subtle wreth of hair, which crowns my arm; The mystery, the sign you must n…
  5. Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; For, thus friends absent speak.
  6. To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love.
  7. And new philosophy calls all in doubt, The element of fire is quite put out; The sun is lost, and the earth, and no man's wit, Can well dir…
  8. I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born.

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