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Instruct me now what love will do; 'T will make a tongueless man to woo. Inform me next what love will do; 'T will strangely make a one of two. Teach me besides what love will do; 'T will quickly mar and make ye too. Tell me, now last, what love will do; 'T will hurt and heal a heart pierc'd through.
Instruct me now what love will do; 'T will make a tongueless man to woo. Inform me next what love will do; 'T will strangely make a one of two. Teach me besides what love will do; 'T will quickly mar and make ye too. Tell me, now last, what love will do; 'T will hurt and heal a heart pierc'd through.
Approximate author period: c. 1625 AD · renaissance
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- Sir John Suckling
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- Approximate author period: c. 1625 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint (1609–1641)
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- Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations (1901) (1901 AD)
Quote1122 · printed citation: SIR JOHN SUCKLING: Aph. of Love.
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