Cupid and my Campaspe play'd

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Cupid and my Campaspe play'dAt cards for kisses--Cupid paid:He stakes his quiver, bow and arrows,His mother's doves, and team of sparrows;Loses them too; then down he throwsThe coral of his lip, the roseGrowing on's cheek (but none knows how);With these, the crystal of his brow,And then the dimple of his chin:All these did my Campaspe win.At last he set her both his eyes,She won, and Cupid blind did rise. O Love! has she done this to thee? What shall (alas!) become of me?

© John Lyly