“Then while time serves, and we are but decaying.
Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a Maying.”

—  Robert Herrick , book Hesperides

"Corinna's Going a Maying" http://books.google.com/books?id=2epaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Then+while+time+serves+and+we+are+but+decaying+come+my+Corinna+come+let's+goe+a+maying%22&pg=PA123#v=onepage.
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17th-century English poet and cleric 1591–1674

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