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If music and sweet poetry agree.
As they must needs (the sister and the brother),
Then must the love be great 'twixt thee and me,
Because thou lov'st the one, and I the other.
--
To His Friend, Mr. R. L., In Praise of Music and Poetry, l. 1.

 

Richard Barnfield

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