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21 " My love to love is love but to disgrace it, For I have heard it is a life in death, That laughs and weeps, and all but with a breath. "
― William Shakespeare , Venus and Adonis
22 " Touch but my lips with those fair lips of thine,--Though mine be not so fair, yet are they red--The kiss shall be thine own as well as mine.What seest thou in the ground? hold up thy head:Look in mine eye-balls, there thy beauty lies;Then why not lips on lips, since eyes in eyes?'Art thou ashamed to kiss? then wink again,And I will wink; so shall the day seem night;Love keeps his revels where they are but twain;Be bold to play, our sport is not in sight:These blue-vein'd violets whereon we leanNever can blab, nor know not what we mean.'The tender spring upon thy tempting lipShows thee unripe; yet mayst thou well be tasted:Make use of time, let not advantage slip;Beauty within itself should not be wasted:Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their primeRot and consume themselves in little time. "
23 " O hard-believing love, how strange it seems!Not to believe, and yet too credulous: Thy weal and woe are both of them extremes; Despair and hope make thee ridiculous: The one doth flatter thee in thoughts unlikely, In likely thoughts the other kills thee quickly. "
24 " Before I know myself, seek not to know me "
25 " One sweet kiss shall pay this countless debt. "
26 " Love is a spirit all compact of fire. "
27 " An oven that is stopp’d, or river stay’d, Burneth more hotly, swelleth with more rage: So of concealed sorrow may be said; Free vent of words love’s fire doth assuage; But when the heart’s attorney once is mute, The client breaks, as desperate in his suit. "
28 " Fie, fie, fond love, thou art so full of fear As one with treasure laden, hemm’d with thieves; Trifles, unwitnessed with eye or ear, Thy coward heart with false bethinking grieves. "
29 " Give me one kiss, I'll give it thee again / And one for int'rest, if thou wilt have twain. "
30 " Graze on my lips, and if those hills be dry, / Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie. "