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Women enjoy'd (whate'er before th' have been)
Are like romances read, or sights once seen:
Fruition's dull, and spoils the play much more
Than if one read or knew the plot before.
'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear;
Heaven were not heaven, if we knew what it were.

— John Suckling Fragmenta Aurea (1646)

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Her face is like the Milky Way i' the sky,
A meeting of gentle lights without a name.

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So in our very judgments.

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She's pretty to walk with,
And witty to talk with,
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Just so, i' th' nick! i' th' very nick of time!

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