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Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
  
John Fletcher. 1579–1625
  
217. Weep no more
  
WEEP no more, nor sigh, nor groan, 
Sorrow calls no time that 's gone: 
Violets pluck'd, the sweetest rain 
Makes not fresh nor grow again. 
Trim thy locks, look cheerfully;         5
Fate's hid ends eyes cannot see. 
Joys as wingèd dreams fly fast, 
Why should sadness longer last? 
Grief is but a wound to woe; 
Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no moe.  10
 
 
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