Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.
Douglas B. W. Sladen b. 1856From the Drama of Charles II
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I will give you all that ’s due t’ye.
Daintily as the bee sips;
At your bonny eyes I ’ll look
Like a scholar at his book:
Like a robin on her nest:
Round my body you shall twine,
I ’ll be elm, and you be vine:
I would drain a draught of death;
In the tangles of your hair
I ’d be hanged and never care.
I will give you all that ’s due t’ ye.