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When Love with unconfinèd wings
Hovers within my Gates;
And my divine Althea brings
To whisper at the Grates;
When I lye tangled in her haire
And fettered to her eye;
The Gods that wanton in the Aire,
Know no such Liberty.

— Richard Lovelace Lucasta (1649)

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Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an hermitage.

Those glories come too late
That on our ashes wait.

inscription on title-page of Posthumous Poems (1659)

The gods that wanton in the air
Know no such liberty.

I could not love thee, dear, so much,
Loved I not honor more.

Lucasta (1649)

Cease, large example of wise thrift a while.

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