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Take, Oh Take Those Lips Away
by John Fletcher

English playwright. He wrote many plays for the Jacobean stage, both on his own and in collaboration with other dramatists. The Faithful Shepherdess (1610), The Loyal Subject (1618), The Humorous Lieutenant (1619), and A Wife for a Month (1624) are among the best plays he wrote unaided. His most fruitful collaboration was with Francis Beaumont; the most successful pieces they produced together were Philaster (1609), A Maid's Tragedy (1610-11) and A King and No King (1611). Around 1613 Fletcher wrote two plays in partnership with William Shakespeare, The Two Noble Kinsmen and Henry VIII. Other playwrights he worked with include Massinger, Rowley, Chapman, Middleton and Jonson.


Take, Oh Take Those Lips Away
by John Fletcher

Take, oh take those lips away,
That so sweetly were forsworn,
And those eyes, the break of day,
Lights that do mislead the morn:
But my kisses bring again,
Seals of love, but sealed in vain.

Hide, oh hide those hills of snow,
Which thy frozen bosom bears,
On whose tops the pinks that grow
Are yet of those that April wears.
But first set my poor heart free,
Bound in those icy chains by thee.


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