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If, when thy stomach calls to eat, Thou cut’st not fingers ’stead of meat; And with much gazing on her face, Dost not rise hungry from the place,— Know this, Thou lov’st amiss; And to love true, Thou must begin again, and love anew.
Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin: Comprising the Celebrated Political and Satirical Poems, of the Rt. Hons. G. Canning, John Hookham Frere, W. Pitt, the Marquis Wellesley, G. Ellis, W. Gifford, the Earl of Carlisle, and Others.
If, when thy stomach calls to eat, Thou cut’st not fingers ’stead of meat; And with much gazing on her face, Dost not rise hungry from the place,— Know this, Thou lov’st amiss; And to love true, Thou must begin again, and love anew.