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Rh Impossible shall be our hope; And love shall only have his scope To join with fancy now and then, And think what reason would condemn: And on these grounds we'll love as true, As if they were most sure t' ensue: And chastly for these things we'll stay, As if to-morrow were the day. Meantime we two will teach our hearts In love's burdens bear their parts: Thou first shall sigh, and say she's fair; And I'll still answer, past compare. Thou shalt set out each part o' th' face, While I extol each little grace: Thou shalt be ravisht at her wit; And I, that she so governs it: Thou shalt like well that hand, that eye, That lip, that look, that majesty, And in good language them adore; While I want words and do it more. Yea we will sit and sigh a while, And with soft thoughts some time beguile; But straight again break out, and praise All we had done before, new-ways. Thus will we do, till paler death Come with a warrant for our breath; And then, whose fate shall be to die First of us two, by legacy Shall all his store bequeath, and give His love to him that shall survive; For no one stock can ever serve To love so much as she'll deserve.

lover whosoever, If in all thy love there ever Was one wav'ring thought, if thy flame Were not still even, still the same: Know this, Thou lov'st amiss; And, to love true, Thou must begin again, and love anew.