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With me, with firm holding—yet haste, haste on.57
For your life, adhere to me!Of all the men of the earth, I only can unloose you and toughen you;
I may have to be persuaded many times before I consent to give myself really to you—but what of that?
Must not Nature be persuaded many times?
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No dainty dolce affettuoso I;Bearded, sun-burnt, gray-neck'd, forbidding, I have arrived,
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For such I afford whoever can persevere to win them.
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