“I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind,
For else it could not be,
That she,
Whom I adore so much, should so slight me,
And cast my love behind.”

— Ben Jonson

IX, My Picture Left in Scotland, lines 1-5
The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio (1640), Underwoods

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“I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind,
For else it could not be,
That she,
Whom I adore so much, should so slight me,
And cast my love behind.”