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First Line: Love brought me to a silent grove
Last Line: Mine execution.
Subject(s): Love


Love brought me to a silent Grove,
And shew'd me there a Tree,
Where some had hang'd themselves for love,
And gave a Twist to me.

The Halter was of silk, and gold,
That he reacht forth unto me:
No otherwise, then if he would
By dainty things undo me.

He bade me then that Neck-lace use;
And told me too, he maketh
A glorious end by such a Noose,
His Death for Love that taketh.

'T was but a dream; but had I been
There really alone;
My desp'rate feares, in love, had seen
Mine Execution.





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