Love and a cottage! Eh, Fanny! Ah, give me indifference and a coach and six!
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Cf. Keats, "Lamia" (1820), pt. 2 | Love in a hut, with water and a crust,
Is — Love, forgive us! — cinders, ashes, dust.
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