Perhaps if you address the lady Most politely most politely Flatter and impress the lady Most politely most politely Humbly beg and humbly sue She may deign to look on you.
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
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Samuel Lover
There is a tide in the affairs of women Which taken at the flood leads - God knows where.
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Lord Byron
"Yes " I answered you last night "No " this morning sir I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day.
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E. B. Browning
And let us mind faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair.
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James Drummond Burns
Tis enough - Who listens once will listen twice Her heart be sure is not of ice And one refusal no rebuff.
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Lord Byron
More Quotes By W. S. Gilbert
Did nothing in particular And did it very well.
Things are seldom what they seem Skim milk masquerades as cream.
Of that there is no manner of doubt - No probable possible shadow of doubt - No possible doubt whatever.
He did nothing in particular And did it very well.
For he might have been a Rooshian A French or Turk or Proosian Or perhaps Italian. But in spite of all temptations To belong to other nations He remains an Englishman.
