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Come to me, pretty peat, let me embrace thee!
Though thou be fair and feat, do not disgrace me;
For I will constant prove (make no denial!)
And be thy dearest love—proof maketh trial.
If ought do breed thy pain,
I can procure thy gain;
Yet, bootless, I complain—
Phyllida flouts me.
Unknown. Phillida Flouts Me (l. 65–72). . .

Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250–1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.
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