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SEX AND SEX.

Grief and gladness
Grow together,
As the rose grows with the thorn;
Hope and sadness
In heart's weather
As the night are and the morn.
Love and lightness
Are in ladies
As the shadow and the sun;
As his brightness
To his shade is,
So is this to the other one.
Lightness show I
Not, my fairest,
Nor injustice in the saw.
Man, well know I,
Service sharest
Thou with woman to this law.

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One half dozen,
Six the other,
Each will each for ever vex,
Plague and cozen,
Sister, brother,
Man and maiden, sex and sex.