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91 O MISTRESS MINE

O MISTRESS mine, where are you roaming?

O stay and hear! your true-love's coming

  That can sing both high and low;

Trip no further, pretty sweeting,

Journeys end in lovers' meeting—

  Every wise man's son doth know.

What is love? 'tis not hereafter;

Present mirth hath present laughter;

  What's to come is still unsure:

In delay there lies no plenty,—

Then come kiss me, Sweet-and-twenty,

  Youth's a stuff will not endure.

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