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UPON A CROWNED HEART SENT TO A CRUEL MISTRESS by HENRY LAWES

First Line: GO, THOU EMBLEM OF MY HEART
Last Line: LOVE NO MORE SHALL FIRE THEE HENCE.
Subject(s): HEARTS; LOVE;

GO, thou emblem of my heart,
Tell my mistress whose thou art;
If with love she do receive thee,
Happy then art thou to leave me;
But if she do chance to frown,
Let her only spoil that crown,
And all wounded home return thee,
Where no other flame shall burn thee;
For impaled in my breast,
Though thou break my peaceful rest;
Yet I vow in thy defence,
Love no more shall fire thee hence.



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