"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing’d Cupid painted blind; Nor hath Love’s mind of any judgement taste; Wings, and no eyes, figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguiled."
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