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 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

And, therefore, take the present time With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,

For love is crowned with the prime

In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,

When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding;

Sweet lovers love the spring.

148 Take y O take those Lips away

VAKE, O take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day,

Lights that do mislead the morn! But my kisses bring again,

Bring again ; Seals of love, but seal'd in vain,

Seal'd in vain!

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��Aubade "ARK! hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings,

And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs

On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin

To ope their golden eyes: With everything that pretty bin, Arise, arise!

750 Fidele

NEAR no more the heat o' the sun,

Nor the furious winter's rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done,

Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages:

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