“I could not love thee, dear, so much,
Loved I not honor more.”

—  Richard Lovelace

To Lucasta: Going to the Wars, st. 3.
Lucasta (1649)
Context: Yet this inconstancy is such
As you too shall adore;
I could not love thee, dear, so much,
Loved I not honor more.

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