"Come my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love; Time will not be ours forever, He at length our good will sever. Spend not then his gifts in vain; Suns that set may rise again, But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys."
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Song, To Celia, lines 1-10. — Compare Catullus, Carmina V
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Ben Jonson
1572 – 1637
englischer Bühnenautor und Dichter
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