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by Ben Jonson (1572 - 1637)

For Love's sake, kiss me once again
Language: English 
  For Love's sake, kiss me once again,
  I long, and should not beg in vain,
      Here's none to spy or see ;
          Why do you doubt or stay?
      I'll taste as lightly as the bee,
That doth but touch his flower, and flies away.

  Once more, and, faith, I will be gone,
  Can he that loves ask less than one ?
      Nay, you may err in this,
          And all your bounty wrong :
      This could be called but half a kiss,
What we're but once to do, we should do long.

  I will but mend the last, and tell
  Where, how it would have relished well ;
      Join lip to lip, and try :
          Each suck the other's breath,
      And whilst our tongues perplexed lie,
Let who will think us dead, or wish our death.

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Confirmed with Jonson, Ben. The Works of Ben Jonson, Volume 3, London, Chatto & Windus, 1910, p. 282.


Text Authorship:

  • by Ben Jonson (1572 - 1637), "Begging another, on colour of mending the former" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir (1883 - 1953), "For love's sake", 1906. [voice and piano] [
     text not verified 
    ]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2014-02-13
Line count: 18
Word count: 131

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