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To His Mistress

by Robert Herrick, 1648

Choose me your valentine,
  Next let us marry —
Love to the death will pine
  If we long tarry.

Promise, and keep your vows,
  Or vow ye never —
Love’s doctrine disallows
  Troth-breakers ever.

You have broke promise twice,
  Dear, to undo me,
If you prove faithless thrice
  None then will woo ye.

Published in Hesperides
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