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1 Tell me, lovely, loving pair!

Why so kind, and so severe?

Why so careless of our care,

Only to yourselves so dear?

2 By this cunning change of hearts,

You the power of Love control;

While the boy's deluded darts

Can arrive at neither soul.

3 For in vain to either breast

Still beguilèd Love does come,

Where he finds a foreign guest,

Neither of your hearts at home.

4 Debtors thus with like design,

When they never mean to pay,

That they may the law decline,

To some friend make all away.

5 Not the silver doves that fly,

Yoked in Cytherea's car;

Not the wings that lift so high,

And convey her son so far;

6 Are so lovely, sweet, and fair,

Or do more ennoble love;

Are so choicely match'd a pair,

Or with more consent do move.