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LOVE TURNED TO HATRED by JOHN SUCKLING

First Line: I WILL NOT LOVE ONE MINUTE MORE, I SWEAR
Last Line: AND ALL FOR THEE---WHAT, WILT THOU LOVE ME YET?
Subject(s): LOVE;

I WILL not love one minute more, I swear,
No, not a minute; not a sigh or tear
Thou gett'st from me, or one kind look agen,
Though thou shouldst court me to 't and wouldst begin.
I will not think of thee but as men do
Of debts and sins, and then I 'll curse thee too:

For thy sake woman shall be now to me
Less welcome than at midnight ghosts shall be:
I 'll hate so perfectly, that it shall be
Treason to love that man that loves a she;
Nay, I will hate the very good, I swear,
That's in thy sex, because it doth lie there;
Their very virtue, grace, discourse and wit,
And all for thee---what, wilt thou love me yet?



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