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William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910.

The Sweetmeat

Sir Edward Sherburne (1618–1702)

THOU gav’st me late to eat

A sweet without, but within, bitter meat:

As if thou would’st have said ‘Here, taste in this

What Celia is.’

But if there ought to be

A likeness, dearest, ’twixt thy gift and thee,

Why first what’s sweet in thee should I not taste,

The bitter last?