Article: Jonson's His Excuse for Loving.(Poem)

Let it not your wonder move, 
Less your laughter, that I love. 
Though I now write fifty years, 
I have had, and have, my peers; 
Poets, though divine, are men: 
Some have loved as old again. 
And it is not always face, 
Clothes, or fortune gives the grace, 
Or the feature, or the youth; 
But the language, and the truth, 
With the ardour and the passion, 
Gives the lover weight and fashion. 
If you then will read the story, 
First prepare you to be sorry 
That you never knew till now 
Either whom to love, or how; 
But be glad as soon with me, 
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