O Gentle Love, ungentle for thy deede, Thou makest my hart,… - George Peele

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O Gentle Love, ungentle for thy deede, Thou makest my hart, A bloodie marke,
With piercing shot to bleede.Shoote soft sweete Love, for feare thou shoote amisse, For feare too keene, Thy arrowes beene:
And hit the hart, where my belovèd is.Too faire that fortune were, nor never I Shall be so blest, Among the rest:
That love shall ceaze on her by simpathy.Then since with Love my prayers beare no boote, This doth remaine, To cease my paine,
I take the wound, and die at Venus foote.

George Peele

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George Peele (born in London, baptized 25 July 1556 – buried 9 November 1596), was an English translator, poet, and dramatist.

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