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TO ALL YOUNG MEN THAT LOVE, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: I could wish you all, who love
Last Line: While you wring your hands and weep.
Subject(s): Love


I could wish you all, who love,
That ye could your thoughts remove
From your Mistresses, and be,
Wisely wanton (like to me.)
I could wish you dispossest
Of that Fiend that marres your rest;
And with Tapers comes to fright
Your weake senses in the night.
I co'd wish, ye all, who frie
Cold as Ice, or coole as I.
But if flames best like ye, then
Much good do't ye Gentlemen.
I a merry heart will keep,
While you wring your hands and weep.





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