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    All Love’s Emblems and all cry,
    Ladies, if not pluckt we dye,
    —John Fletcher (1579–1625)

    Come, all sad and solemn shows,
    That are quick-eyed Pleasure’s foes!
    We convent nought else but woes,
    We convent nought else but woes.
    —John Fletcher (1579–1625)

    Hear, ye ladies that despise,
    What the mighty Love has done;
    Fear examples, and be wise:
    —John Fletcher (1579–1625)