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Over the mountains,
And over the waves,
Over the fountains,
And under the graves;
Over the floods that are deepest,
Which do Neptune obey;
Over the rocks that are steepest,
Love will find out the way.

— Thomas Percy Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765)

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He that had neither beene kithe nor kin,
Might have seene a full fayre sight.

Everye white will have its blacke,
And everye sweet its soure.

He that wold not when he might,
He shall not when he wold-a.

He that would not when he might,
He shall not when he wolda.

Weep no more, lady, weep no more,
Thy sorrowe is in vaine,
For violets pluckt, the sweetest showers
Will ne'er make grow againe.

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