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 ROBERT HERRICK

Whenas that ruby which you wear, Sunk from the tip of your soft ear, Will last to be a precious stone When all your world of beauty's gone.

275 To CEnone

"HAT conscience, say, is it in thee, When I a heart had one, To take away that heart from me, And to retain thy^own ?

For shame or pity now incline

To play a loving part; Either to send me kmd]y thine,

Or give me back my heart.

Covet not both; but if thou dost Resolve to part with neither,

Why, yet to show that thou art just, Take me and mine together'

��274 To Anthea, ID me to live, and I will live

Thy Protestant to be; Or bid me love, and I will give A loving heart to thec.

A heart as soft, a heart as kind, A heart as sound and free

As in the whole world thou canst find,

That heart I'll give to thee.

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