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The Headache

by Robert Herrick, 1648

My head doth ache,
O Sappho! take
    Thy fillet,
And bind the pain,
Or bring some bane
    To kill it.

But less that part
Than my poor heart
    Now is sick;
One kiss from thee
Will counsel be
    And physic.

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