SWEET-AND-TWENTY.

By William Shakespeare (1564–1616).

Oh, mistress mine, where are you roaming?

Oh, stay and hear; your true love’s coming,

That can sing both high and low;

Trip no farther, pretty sweeting;

Journeys end in lover’s meeting,

Every wise man’s son doth know.

What is love? ’tis not hereafter;

Present mirth hath present laughter;

What’s to come is still unsure:

In delay there lies no plenty;

Then come kiss me, Sweet-and-Twenty,

Youth’s a stuff will not endure.

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