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Stool-ball

by Robert Herrick, 1648

At stool-ball, Lucia, let us play
  For sugar-cakes and wine:
Or for a tansy let us pay,
  The loss, or thine, or mine.

If thou, my dear, a winner be
  At trundling of the ball,
The wager thou shall have, and me,
  And my misfortunes all.

But if, my sweetest, I shall get,
  Then I desire but this:
That likewise I may pay the bet
  And have for all a kiss.

Published in Hesperides
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