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THE MERIT OF INCONSTANCY by RICHARD LOVELACE

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First Line: WHY DOST THOU SAY I AM FORSWORN
Last Line: DID I STILL DOAT UPON THAT FACE.
Subject(s): UNFAITHFULNESS; INFIDELITY; ADULTERY; INCONSTANCY;
WHY dost thou say I am forsworn,
Since thine I vowed to be?
Lady, it is already morn;
It was last night I swore to thee
That food impossibility.

Yet have I loved thee well, and long;
A tedious twelve-hours' space!
I should all other beauties wrong,
And rob thee of a new embrace,
Did I still doat upon that face.



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