Oh for some honest lover's ghost, Some kind unbodied post S… - John Suckling

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Oh for some honest lover's ghost,
Some kind unbodied post
Sent from the shades below!
I strangely long to know
Whether the nobler chaplets wear
Those that their mistress' scorn did bear,
Or those that were used kindly.

John Suckling

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Sir John Suckling (10 February 1609 – after May 1641) was an English poet, prominent among those renowned for careless gaiety and wit – the accomplishments of a cavalier poet. He also invented the card game cribbage.

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Why so pale and wan, fond lover
Prithee, why so pale?

Our sins, like to our shadows,
When our day is in its glory, scarce appear:
Towards our evening how great and monstrous
They are!

They who know all the wealth they have are poor;
He's only rich that cannot tell his store.

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