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THE UNKNOWN

Old am I grown and grey,
No girl will look at me:
I hear them sigh and say:
“Alas, to think that we
May come like him to be!”
Minxes, I scorn your pity:
There's one who loves me well,
A lady, beauteous, witty,
Who doth you all excel:
Some day her name I'll tell.