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11Ask me why I send you here,Ask me why I send you here
22The firstling of the infant year;This sweet Infanta of the year?
33Ask me why I send to you,Ask me why I send to you
44This primrose all bepearl'd with dew;This Primrose, thus be-pearled with dew?
55I straight will whisper in your earsI will whisper to your ears:
66The sweets of love are washed with tears.The sweets of love are mix'd with tears.
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88Ask me why this flower doth shewAsk me why this flow'r does show
99So yellow, green, and sickly too:So yellow-green, and sickly too?
1010Ask me why the stalk is weakAsk me why the stalk is weak
1111And bending yet it doth not break;And bending, yet it doth not break?
1212I must tell you, these discoverI will answer: -- these discover
1313What doubts and fears are in a lover.What doubts and fears are in a lover.

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