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SWEET-AND-TWENTY By : William Shakespear 1564-1616

SWEET-AND-TWENTY By : William Shakespear 1564-1616

O mistress mine , where are you roaming ? O , stay and hear ! your true love ' s coming , That can sing both high and low : Trip no further , pretty sweeting ; Journeys end in lovers meeting , Every wise man ' s son doth know .
What is love ? ' tis not hereafter ; Present mirth hath present laughter ; What ' s to come is still unsure : In delay there lies no plenty ; Then come kiss me , sweet-and-twenty ! Youth ' s a stuff will not endure .
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