“O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell.”
Act II, scene x
Love for Love (1695)
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“Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.”

“O Miss Bailey!
Unfortunate Miss Bailey!”
Love laughs at Locksmiths, Act ii, Song, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed,
By keeping men off, you keep them on.”
Act I, sc. viii, air 9
The Beggar's Opera (1728)

“And if you need to kiss me. Then you'll most definitely miss me. When I'm gone.”
She Fell Into My Arms
"To a Fat Lady Seen from the Train", from Poems (Hampstead: Priory Press, 1910) p. 20.
'The Stray Cupid', tr. R. Polwhele, lines 3–8; spoken by Venus.
Compare: "It fortuned, fair Venus having lost / Her little son, the winged god of love, / ....." Edmund Spenser, Faerie Queene, B. III, C. 6, st. 11
The Idylliums of Moschus, Idyllium I