Quote #2
Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
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- Why so pale and wan, fond lover Prithee, why so pale?
- Quit, quit, for shame, this will not move: This cannot take her. If of herself she cannot love, Nothing can make her: The devil take her!
- If I a fancy take To black and blue, That fancy doth it beauty make.
- 'Tis now since I sat down before That foolish fort, a heart, (Time strangely spent) a year, and more, And still I did my part:
- Oh for some honest lover's ghost, Some kind unbodied post Sent from the shades below! I strangely long to know Whether the nobler chaplets …
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- Her lips were red, and one was thin; Compared with that was next her chin,- Some bee had stung it newly.
- 'T is expectation makes a blessing dear; Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were.