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LOVE, FR. THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Poet Analysis

First Line: TO BE IN LOVE, WHERE SCORN IS BOUGHT WITH GROANS
Last Line: OR ELSE A WIT BY FOLLY VANQUISHED.
To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans;
Coy looks with heart-sore sighs; one fading moments mirth
With twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights:
If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain;
If lost, why then a grievous labour won;
However, but a folly bought with wit,
Or else a wit by folly vanquished.


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