Edmund Waller (1606–1687) English poet and politician
Go, Lovely Rose (1664), st. 1.
Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham (1857)
“I know a maiden fair to see,
Take care!
She can both false and friendly be,
Beware! Beware!
Trust her not,
She is fooling thee.”
From the German (In Hyperion).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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