William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910.
The SweetmeatSir Edward Sherburne (16181702)
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A sweet without, but within, bitter meat:
As if thou would’st have said ‘Here, taste in this
What Celia is.’
A likeness, dearest, ’twixt thy gift and thee,
Why first what’s sweet in thee should I not taste,
The bitter last?