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Gentle sweet mother o' mine!

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Lawne as white as driven Snow,

Cypresse blacke as ere was Crow,

Cloves as sweete as Damaske Roses,

Maskes for faces, and for noses,

Bugle-bracelet, Necke-lace Amber,

Perfume for a Ladies Chamber:

Golden Quoifes, and Stomachers

For my Lads, to give their deers:

Pins, and peaking-stickes of steele:

What Maids lacke from head to heele:

Come buy of me, come: come buy, come buy,

Buy Lads, or else your Lasses cry: Come buy.

William Shakespeare

77

Fine knacks for ladies! cheap, choice, brave, and new,

Good pennyworths—but money cannot move:

I keep a fair but for the Fair to view—

A beggar may be liberal of love.

Though all my wares be trash, the heart is true,

The heart is true.

Great gifts are guiles and look for gifts again;

My trifles come as treasures from my mind:

It is a priceless jewel to be plain;

Sometimes in shell the orient'st pearls we find:—

Of others take a sheaf, of me a grain!

Of me a grain!...

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