“Wilt make haste to give up thy verdict because thou wilt not lose thy dinner.”
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A Trick to catch the Old One (1605).
“Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor,
Most gracious singer of high poems! where
The dancers will break footing, from the care
Of watching up thy pregnant lips for more.”
No. IV
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
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