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Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.

Sonnets after Astrophel, etc.

Canto quarto: Love whets the dullest wits, his plagues be such

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LOVE whets the dullest wits, his plagues be such:

But makes the wise by pleasing, dote as much.

So wit is purchased by this dire disease.

O let me dote! so LOVE be bent to please.