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POETASTER: SONG (3) by BEN JONSON

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First Line: LOVE IS BLIND, AND A WANTON
Last Line: OR SHE WILL UNDO HIM.

Love is blind, and a wanton;
In the whole world, there is scant one
Such another:
No, not his mother.
He hath plucked her doves, and sparrows,
To feather his sharp arrows,
And alone prevaileth,
While sick Venus waileth.
But if Cypris once recover
The wag; it shall behove her
To look better to him;
Or she will undo him.



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