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| Declare your self base fortunes Enemy, |
| No less be your contempt then her inconstancy: |
| That I may grow enamoured on your mind, |
| When my own thoughts I here neglected find. |
| And this to th'comfort of my Dear I vow, |
| My Deeds shall still be what my deeds are now; |
| The Poles shall move to teach me ere I start; |
| And when I change my Love, I'll change my heart; |
| Nay, if I wax but cold in my desire, |
| Think, heaven hath motion lost, and the world, fire: |
| Much more I could, but many words have made |
| That, oft suspected which men most perswade; |
| Take therefore all in this: I love so true, |
| As I will never look for less in you. |
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[Transcriptions are not provided for noncanonical poems,
elegies on Donne by other authors, or prose compositions] |