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“TELLUS: Why, she is but a woman. ENDYMION: No more was Venus. TELLUS: She is but a virgin. ENDYMION: No more was Vesta. TELLUS: She shall have an end. ENDYMION: So shall the world. TELLUS: Is not her beauty subject to time? ENDYMION: No more than time is to standing still. TELLUS: Wilt thou make her immortal? ENDYMION: No, but incomparable”

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Book:Endymion, The Man in the Moon: Enriched edition. A Whimsical Tale of Love and Longing in Renaissance Literature
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“Cupid and my Campaspe play'd At cards for kisses - Cupid paid: He stakes his quiver, bow, and arrows, His mother's doves, and team of sparrows; Loses them too; then down he throws The coral of his lips, the rose Growing one's cheek (but none knows how); With these, the crystal of his brow, And then the dimple of his chin: All these did my Campaspe win. At last he set her both his eyes - She won, and Cupid blind did rise. O Love! has she done this for thee? What shall, alas! become of me?”

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