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Begging Another

By Ben Jonson

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For loves sake, kiss me once again; I long, and should not beg in vain, Heres none to spy or see; Why do you doubt or stay? Ill 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 were but once to do, we should do long. I will but mend the last, and tell Where, how it should have relished well; Join lip to lip, and try Each suck others breath. And whilst our tongues perplexed lie, Let who will, think us dead or wish our death.

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Ben Jonson (1572–1637) was an English poet, playwright, and critic who became the de facto Poet Laureate. His poems include "Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes" and "To Penshurst," and his masques and comedies made him one of the most important literary figures of the Jacobean era.

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