Ay me! I love; give him your hand to kiss
Who both your wooer and your poet is.
Nature has precompos’d us both to love:
Your part’s to grant; my scene must be to move.
Dear, can you like, and liking love your poet?
If you say “Aye,” blush-guiltiness will show it.
Mine eyes must woo you, though I sigh the while:
True love is tongueless as a crocodile.
And you may find in love these different parts —
Wooers have tongues of ice, but burning hearts.
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