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Quotes from The Mistress — Abraham Cowley

1618–1667 England

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The world's a scene of changes, and to be
Constant, in Nature were inconstancy.

The Mistress (1647)

Lukewarmness I account a sin
As great in love as in religion.

The Mistress (1647)

Love in her sunny eyes does basking play;
Love walks the pleasant mazes of her hair;
Love does on both her lips for ever stray;
And sows and reaps a thousand kisses there.
In all her outward parts Love's always seen;
But, oh, he never went within.

The Mistress (1647)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Abraham Cowley (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.