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Had we but world enough, and time,

This coyness, Lady, were no crime

We would sit down and think which way

To walk and pass our long love's day.

First lines from Andrew Marvell's To His Coy Mistress, first published (posthumously) this year

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6