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ALCIDA: VERSES WRITTEN UNDER CARVING OF CUPID BLOWING BALDDERS IN AIR by ROBERT GREENE

First Line: LOVE IS A LOCK THAT LINKETH NOBLE MINDS
Last Line: AS FOUL DISGRACE TO GREATEST STATES DO[TH] BRING.
Subject(s): LOVE; LOVE - COMPLAINTS;

LOVE is a lock that linketh noble minds,
Faith is the key that shuts the spring of love,
Lightness a wrest that wringeth all awry,
Lightness a plague that fancy cannot brook;
Lightness in love so bad and base a thing,
As foul disgrace to greatest states do[th] bring.



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