“What thing is love?—for (well I wot) love is a thing
It is a prick, it is a sting,
It is a pretty, pretty thing;
It is a fire, it is a coal,
Whose flame creeps in at every hole!”

—  George Peele

"The Hunting of Cupid" (1591).

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English translator and poet 1556–1596

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