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by Robert Herrick, 1648

Begin with a kiss,
  Go on too with this;
And thus, thus, thus let us smother
  Our lips for awhile,
  But let’s not beguile
Our hope of one for the other.

  This play, be assur’d,
  Long enough has endur’d,
Since more and more is exacted;
  For Love he doth call
  For his uptails all;
And that’s the part to be acted.

Published in Hesperides
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