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So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, / Which sucks two souls, and vapours both away; / Turn, thou ghost, that way, and let me turn this, / And let ourselves benight our happiest day. / We ask none leave to love; nor will we owe / Any so cheap a death as saying, "Go."
Go; and if that word have not quite killed thee, / Ease me with death, by bidding me go too. / Or, if it have, let my word work on me, / And a just office on a murderer do. / Except it be too late, to kill me so, / Being double dead, going, and bidding, "Go. "