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Go and catch a falling star, / Get with child a mandrake root, / Tell me where all past years are, / Or who cleft the devil's foot, / Teach me to hear mermaids singing, / Or to keep off envy's stinging, / And find / What wind / Serves to advance an honest mind.
If thou be'st born to strange sights, / Things invisible to see, / Ride ten thousand days and nights, / Till age snow white hairs on thee, / Thou, when thou return'st, wilt tell me, / All strange wonders that befell thee, / And swear, / Nowhere / Lives a woman true and fair.
If thou find'st one, let me know; / Such a pilgrimage were sweet. / Yet do not, I would not go, / Though at next door we might meet. / Though she were true when you met her, / And last till you write your letter, / Yet she / Will be / False, ere I come, to two or three.