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Sonnet 154

           ,        ,    T    Tx    T       ,
      The lit|tle Love-|god lying once | asleep,
        ,             ,          ,        ,        ,
      Laid by | his side | his heart-|inflam|ing brand,
         ,     2       ,            T      T     T         ,
      Whilst many | nymphs that | vowed chaste life | to keep
              ,        ,        ,        ,        ,
      Came* trip|ping by,| but^in | her maid|en hand,
            ,       ,    ,         ,          ,
      The fair|est vot|ary | took^up | that fire,
             ,     ,              ,     ,            ,
      Which ma|ny leg|ions of / true hearts | had warmed;
           ,        ,    ,        ,       ,
      And so | the Gen|eral | of hot | desire,
            ,        ,      ,        ,         ,
      Was sleep|ing by | a vir|gin hand | disarmed.
             ,             ,               ,    ,     ,
      This^brand | she quenched | in a / cool well | by
      <-           T     T     T           ,        ,    ,
        Which || from Love's fire | took heat | perpe|tual,
        ,           ,          ,         ,    ,
      Growing | a bath | and health|ful rem|edy,
           ,         ,         ,       ,            ,
      For men | diseased,| but I | my mist|ress' thrall,
        ,                ,          ,         ,        ,
      Came there*| for cure | and this | by that | I prove,
         T     T    T       Tx    Tx     T           ,
      Love's fire heats | water, water cools | not love.  ??
 

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