“Here we’ll strip and cool our fire
In cream below, in milk-baths higher;
And when all wells are drawn dry,
I’ll drink a tear out of thine eye.”

— Richard Lovelace

To Amarantha, That She Would Dishevel Her Hair (l. 21–24).
Lucasta (1649)

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English writer and poet 1617–1658

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