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LOVE still a boy and oft a wanton is,
Schooled only by his mother's tender eye;
What wonder, then, if he his lesson miss,
When for so soft a rod dear play he try?
And yet my Star, because a sugared kiss
In sport I sucked while she asleep did lie,
Doth lower, nay chide, nay threat, for only this.-
Sweet, it was saucy Love, not humble I!
But no 'scuse serves; she makes her wrath appear
In Beauty's throne; see now, who dares come near / Those scarlet judges, threatening bloody pain! / O heavenly fool, thy most kiss-worthy face / Anger invests with such a lovely grace, / That Anger's self I needs must kiss again.