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Though not a few of the poems in the present volume could not be included in anthologies intended for general circulation, I must yet be allowed to state that I have reprinted nothing that is offensively gross. There is a great deal of dirt — nasty worthless trash — in the miscellanies of the Restoration, and with this garbage I have not chosen to meddle.

— Arthur Henry Bullen Speculum Amantis (1889)

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The season of the rose is brief, make haste to pluck your posies;
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