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Quotation by Joshua Sylvester
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Were I as base as is the lowly plain (attributed to Sylvester)
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Were I as base as is the lowly plain,
And you, my Love, as high as heaven above,
Yet should the thoughts of me, your humble swain,
Ascend to heaven in honour of my love.
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Joshua Sylvester
Joshua Sylvester (1561–1618), British poet, translator. Were I as base as is the lowly plain (attributed to Sylvester) (l. 1–4). . .
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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