by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
O mistress mine, where are you roaming?
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O mistress mine, where are you roaming? O stay and hear, your true love's coming That can sing both high and low. Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers' meeting, Ev'ry wise man's son doth know. What is love? 'Tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty; Youth's a stuff will not endure.
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- by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Twelfth Night: or, What You Will, Act II, Scene 3 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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