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First Line: Nymph of the garden where all beauties be
Last Line: I will but kiss, I never more will bite.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


Nymph of the garden where all beauties be;
Beauties, which do in excellency pass
His who till death looked in a watery glass,
Or hers whom naked the Trojan boy did see:
Sweet garden nymph, which keeps the cherry tree,
Whose fruit doth far th'Hesperian taste surpass;
Most sweet-fair, most fair-sweet, do not, alas,
From coming near those cherries banish me.
For though, full of desire, empty of wit,
Admitted late by your best-graced grace,
I caught at one of them a hungry bit;
Pardon that fault, once more grant me the place,
And I do swear, even by the same delight,
I will but kiss, I never more will bite.





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