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| <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Sonnet CLIV</TITLE></HEAD> | |
| <BODY><H1>Sonnet CLIV</H1> | |
| <BLOCKQUOTE>The little Love-god lying once asleep<BR> | |
| Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand,<BR> | |
| Whilst many nymphs that vow'd chaste life to keep<BR> | |
| Came tripping by; but in her maiden hand<BR> | |
| The fairest votary took up that fire<BR> | |
| Which many legions of true hearts had warm'd;<BR> | |
| And so the general of hot desire<BR> | |
| Was sleeping by a virgin hand disarm'd.<BR> | |
| This brand she quenched in a cool well by,<BR> | |
| Which from Love's fire took heat perpetual,<BR> | |
| Growing a bath and healthful remedy<BR> | |
| For men diseased; but I, my mistress' thrall,<BR> | |
| Came there for cure, and this by that I prove,<BR> | |
| Love's fire heats water, water cools not love.<BR> | |