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Amorvm Emblemata

Figvris Aeneis Incisa Stvdio Othonis Vaeni Batavo-lvgdvnensis. Emblemes of Loue. With verses in Latin, English, and Italian

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Contentment in conceat.

Loues recompence is oft, but eu'n the thoghts of loue,
Imagining hee sees his mistris louely face,
And thogh shee absent bee, hee thinkes shee is in place,
And thus this all hee hath, nothing at all doth proue.