This next, I think, is more than commonplace.
“Why should we speak, if Love, interpreting,
Forestall the speech with favour found before?
Why should we plead? it were an idle thing,
If Love himself be Love’s ambassador!”
Blot, as I live! Shall we erase it? No;
’Twill show we write currente calamo.
“My fate, my fortune, I commit to you”—
(In point of fact, the latter’s not extensive);
“Without you I am poor indeed” (strike through—