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| WHEN first mine eyes did view and mark | |
| Thy beauty fair for to behold, | |
| And when mine ears ’gan first to hark | |
| The pleasant words that thou me told; | |
| I would as then I had been free | 5 |
| From ears to hear and eyes to see. | |
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| And when my hands did handle oft | |
| That might thee keep in memory, | |
| And when my feet had gone so soft | |
| To find and have thy company; | 10 |
| I would each hand a foot had been, | |
| And eke each foot a hand had seen. | |
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| And when in mind I did consent | |
| To follow thus my fancy’s will, | |
| And when my heart did first relent | 15 |
| To taste such bait myself to spill, | |
| I would my heart had been as thine, | |
| Or else thy heart as soft as mine. | |
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| Then should not I such cause have found | |
| To wish this monstrous sight to see, | 20 |
| Nor thou, alas! that mad’st the wound, | |
| Should not deny me remedy: | |
| Then should one will in both remain, | |
| To ground one heart which now is twain. | |
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