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I loathe that I did love,
In youth that I thought sweet;
As time requires, for my behove,
Methinks they are not meet.
* * *
For age with stealing steps
Hath clawed me with his clutch,
And lusty life away she leaps,
As there had been none such.

— Thomas Vaux

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Source: "The Aged Lover Renounceth Love" or "Dittye ... representing the Image of Death", sts. 1, 3, in Tottel's Miscellany (1557) and reprinted in Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. 1, p. 161
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Garbled by the Gravediggers in Hamlet, act 5, sc. 1, 57–98: In youth, when I did love, did love, ...

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