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There is no life on earth but being in love! There are no studies, no delights, no business, No intercourse or trade of sense or soul But what is love! I was the laziest creature, The most unprofitable sign of nothing, The veriest drone, and slept away my life Beyond the dormouse, till I was in love. And now I can outwake the nightingale, Outwatch an usurer, and outwalk him too; Stalk like a ghost that haunted 'bout a treasurie, And all that fancied treasure--it is love!
BEN JONSON.