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YES I could love, if I could find
A mistress fitted to my mind,
Whom neither gold nor pride could move,
To change her virtue or her love:
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Loves to go neat, not to go fine,
Loves for my self, and not for mine;
Not city proud, nor nice and coy,
But full of love, and full of joy:
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Not childish young, nor beldame old,
Not fiery hot, nor icy cold,
Not gravely wise to rule the state,
Not foolish to be pointed at:
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Not worldly rich, nor basely poor,
Nor chast, nor a reputed whore:
If such an one you can discover,
Pray, sir, intitle me her lover.
