Kisses

My love and I for kisses played: She would keep stakes—I was content; But when I won, she would be paid; This made me ask her what she meant. “Pray since I see,” quoth she, “your wrangling vein, Take your own kisses; give me mine again.”

Collection: 
1622
Sub Title: 
III. Love’s Beginnings

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  • My love and I for kisses played: She would keep stakes—I was content; But when I won, she would be paid; This made me ask her what she meant. “Pray since I see,” quoth she, “your wrangling vein, Take your own kisses; give me mine again.”