The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/On Love (Love bade me ask a gift)

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249. ON LOVE.

Love bade me ask a gift,
And I no more did move
But this, that I might shift
Still with my clothes my love:
That favour granted was;
Since which, though I love many,
Yet so it comes to pass
That long I love not any.