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11Sweet stay awhile, why will you rise?Stay, O sweet, and do not rise ;
22The light you see comes from your eyes:The light, that shines comes from thine eyes ;
33The day breaks not; it is my heart,The day breaks not, it is my heart,
44To think that you and I must part.Because that you and I must part.
55O stay, or else my joys must die, Stay, or else my joys will die,
66And perish in their infancy. And perish in their infancy.
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88Dear, let me die in this fair breast,'T is true, 't is day; what though it be?
99Far sweeter than the Phoenix' nest.O wilt thou therefore rise from me?
1010Love raise desire by his sweet charmsWhy should we rise because 'tis light?
1111Within this circle of thine arms:Did we lie down because 'twas night?
1212And let thy blissful kisses cherish Love, which in spite of darkness brought us hither,
1313Mine infant joys, that else must perish. Should in despite of light keep us together.
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15Light hath no tongue, but is all eye.
16If it could speek as well as spy,
17This were the worst that it could say: -
18That, being well, I fain would stay,
19 And that I lov'd my heart and honour so,
20 That I would not from him, that had them, go.
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22Must business thee from hence remove?
23Oh, that's the worse disease of love!
24The poor, the fool, the false, love can
25Admit, but not the busied man.
26 He, which hath business, and makes love, doth do
27 Such wrong, as when a married man doth woo.

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