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Son. [xxxvii]
[Of Cithereas Birds that milke-white paire]
Of Cithereas Birds that milke-white paireOn yonder leauie Mirtle Tree which grone,
And waken with their kisses in the Aire
Enamour'd Zephyres murmuring one by one,
If thou but Sense hadst like Pigmalions Stone?
Or hadst not seene Medusas snakie haire,
Loues Lessons thou mightst learne? and learne sweete Faire,
To Summers Heat ere that thy Spring bee growne.
And if those kissing Louers seeme but Cold,
Looke how that Elme this Iuie doth embrace,
And bindes, and claspes with many a wanton Fold,
And courting Sleepe o'reshadowes all the Place:
Nay seemes to say, deare Tree we shall not parte,
In Signe whereof loe in each Leafe a Heart.
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