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Two Bookes of Ayres:
The Second Booke
X.
by Thomas Campion.
What haruest halfe so sweet is,
As still to reape the kisses
Grown ripe in sowing ?
And straight to be receiuer
Of that which thou art giuer,
Rich in bestowing ?
Kisse then, my haruest Queene,
Full garners heaping ;
Kisses, ripest when th' are greene,
Want onely
reaping.
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The Doue alone expresses
Her feruencie in kisses,
Of all most louing :
A creature as offencelesse,
As those things that are sencelesse,
And void of mouing.
Let vs so loue and kisse,
Though all enuie vs :
That which kinde, and harmelesse is,
None can denie vs.
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Source:
Campion, Thomas. Campion's Works. Percival Vivian, Ed.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909. 138.
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