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80 Love not me for comely grace

" OVE not me for comely grace, /For my pleasing eye or face, Nor for any outward part, No, nor for a constant heart:

For these may fail or turn to ill,

So thou and I shall sever. Keep, therefore, a true woman's eye, And love me still but know not why So hast thou the same reason still To doat upon me ever!

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��8 1 The Wakening

a time the amorous Silvy Said to her shepherd, 'Sweet, how do ye? Kiss me this once and then God be wi' ye, My sweetest dear!

Kiss me this once and then God be wi' ye, For now the morning draweth near.'

With that, her fairest bosom showing, Opening her lips, rich perfumes blowing, She said, 'Now kiss me and be going,

Kiss me this once and then be going, For now the morning draweth near.'

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