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512What bargains may I make still to be sealing?
513To sell myself I can be well contented,
514So thou wilt buy and pay and use good dealing,
515 Which purchase if thou make, for fear of slips,
516 Set thy seal manual on my wax-red lips.
518And pay them at thy leisure, one by one.
519What is ten hundred touches unto thee?
520Are they not quickly told and quickly gone?
521 Say for non-payment that the debt should double,
522 Is twenty hundred kisses such a trouble?"
524Measure my strangeness with my unripe years.
525Before I know myself, seek not to know me.
526No fisher but the ungrown fry forbears.
527 The mellow plum doth fall; the green sticks fast,
528 Or, being early plucked, is sour to taste.
530His day's hot task hath ended in the west;
531The owl, night's herald, shrieks, 'tis very late;
532The sheep are gone to fold, birds to their nest,
533 And coal-black clouds, that shadow heaven's light,
534 Do summon us to part and bid good night.
536If you will say so, you shall have a kiss."
537"Good night," quoth she, and ere he says adieu,
538The honey fee of parting tendered is.
539 Her arms do lend his neck a sweet embrace.
540Incorporate then they seem; face grows to face.