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Not To Love.

By Robert Herrick

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He that will not love must be     My scholar, and learn this of me:     There be in love as many fears     As the summer's corn has ears:     Sighs, and sobs, and sorrows more     Than the sand that makes the shore:     Freezing cold and fiery heats,     Fainting swoons and deadly sweats;     Now an ague, then a fever,     Both tormenting lovers ever.     Would'st thou know, besides all these,     How hard a woman 'tis to please,     How cross, how sullen, and how soon     She shifts and changes like the moon.     How false, how hollow she's in heart:     And how she is her own least part:     How high she's priz'd, and worth but small;     Little thou'lt love, or not at all.

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About Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick (1591–1674) was an English Cavalier poet whose "Hesperides" (1648) contains over 1,200 poems. His carpe diem verse "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" ("Gather ye rosebuds while ye may") and lyric poems celebrate love, beauty, and the passing of time.

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