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INCONSTANCY by EDWARD HERBERT

First Line: INCONSTANCY'S THE GREATEST OF SINS
Last Line: LIKE THE SAME BODY IN ANOTHER PLACE.
Subject(s): UNFAITHFULNESS; INFIDELITY; ADULTERY; INCONSTANCY;

INCONSTANCY 's the greatest of sins,
It neither ends well nor begins;
All other faults we simply do:
This, 'tis the same fault and next too.

Inconstancy no sin will prove,
If we consider that we love
But the same beauty in another face,
Like the same body in another place.



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