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71. Love not me for comely grace

T 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 !

72. The Wakening

ON a time the amorous Silvy Said to her shepherd, ' Sweet, how do ye ? Kiss me this once and then God be with ye,

My sweetest dear !

Kiss me this once and then God be with ye, For now the morning draweth near.' With that, her fairest bosom showing, Op'ning her lips, rich perfumes blowing, She said, ' Now kiss me and be going,

My sweetest dear !

Kiss me this once and then be going, For now the morning draweth near.' With that the shepherd waked from sleeping, And spying where the- day was peeping, He said, c Now take my soul in keeping,

My sweetest dear !

Kiss me and take my soul in keeping, Since I must go, now day is near.'

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