The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/To His Mistress
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94. TO HIS MISTRESS.
Choose me your valentine,
Next let us marry—
Love to the death will pine
If we long tarry.
Promise, and keep your vows,
Or vow ye never—
Love's doctrine disallows
Troth-breakers ever.
You have broke promise twice,
Dear, to undo me,
If you prove faithless thrice
None then will woo ye.