Give, if thou canst, an alms if not, afford, instead of that, a sweet and gentle word.
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I dare not ask a kiss I dare not beg a smile Lest having that, or this, I might grow proud the while. No, no, the utmost share Of my desire, shall be Only to kiss that air, That lately kissed thee.
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Only a little more I have to write, Then I'll give o'er, And bid the world good-night.
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The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.
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Welcome maids of honour, You do bring In the Spring And wait upon her.
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Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.
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