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LOVE by GEORGE PEELE

First Line: WHAT THING IS LOVE? -- FOR SURE LOVE IS A THING
Last Line: THAT MARS WITH VENUS PLAY'D EVEN AND ODD.
Subject(s): LOVE; LOVE - NATURE OF;
WHAT thing is love?—for sure love is a thing:—
Love is a prick, love is a sting,
Love is a pretty, pretty thing;
Love is a fire, love is a coal,
Whose flame creeps in at every hole;
And, as myself can best devise,
His dwelling is in ladies' eyes,
From whence he shoots his dainty darts
Into the lusty gallants' hearts;
And ever since was call'd a god

That Mars with Venus play'd even and odd.



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