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AMPHITRYON: SONG by JOHN DRYDEN

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First Line: FAIR IRIS I LOVE AND HOURLY I DIE
Last Line: SO EASIE TO PART, OR SO EQUALLY JOIN'D.
Subject(s): BLESSINGS; LOVE; SINGING & SINGERS; SONGS;
I

FAIR @3Iris@1 I love and hourly I dye,
But not for a Lip nor a languishing Eye:
She's fickle and false, and there I agree;
For I am as false and as fickle as she:
We neither believe what either can say;
And, neither believing, we neither betray.

II

'Tis civil to swear and say Things of course;
We mean not the taking for better or worse.
When present we love, when absent agree;
I think not of @3Iris@1, nor @3Iris@1 of me:
The Legend of Love no Couple can find
So easie to part, or so equally join'd.



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