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HOW PANSIES OR HEART-EASE CAME FIRST by ROBERT HERRICK

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First Line: FROLIC [FROLLICK] VIRGINS ONCE THESE WERE
Last Line: GAVE THEM HEARTS-EASE TURN'D TO FLOW'RS.

Frollick Virgins once these were,
Overloving, (living here:)
Being here their ends deny'd
Ran for Sweet-hearts mad, and dy'd.
Love in pitie of their teares,
And their losse in blooming yeares;
For their restlesse here-spent-houres,
Gave them Hearts-ease turn'd to Flow'rs.



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