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Stately goddess, do thou please, Who are chief at marriages, But to dress the bridal bed When my love and I shall wed; And a peacock proud shall be Offered up by us to thee.

When thou dost play and sweetly sing— Whether it be the voice or string Or both of them that do agree Thus to entrance and ravish me— This, this I know, I'm oft struck mute, And die away upon thy lute.

Thou gav'st me leave to kiss, Thou gav'st me leave to woo; Thou mad'st me think, by this And that, thou lov'dst me too.

But I shall ne'er forget How, for to make thee merry, Thou mad'st me chop, but yet Another snapp'd the cherry. Chop-cherry, another name of cherry-bob.