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Gentle nymphs, be not refusing,

Love's neglect is Time's abusing,

They and beauty are but lent you;

Take the one, and keep the other:

Love keeps fresh what age doth smother,

Beauty gone, you will repent you.

'Twill be said, when ye have proved,

Never swains more truly loved:

Oh, then, fly all nice behaviour!

Pity fain would (as her duty)

Be attending still on Beauty,

Let her not be out of favour.

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