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 A Divine Mistress by Thomas Carew 
						In Nature's pieces still I seeSome error that might mended be;
 Something my wish could still remove,
 Alter or add; but my fair love
 Was fram'd by hands far more divine,
 For she hath every beauteous line:
 Yet I had been far happier,
 Had Nature, that made me, made her.
 Then likeness might (that love creates)
 Have made her love what now she hates;
 Yet I confess I cannot spare
 From her just shape the smallest hair;
 Nor need I beg from all the store
 Of heaven for her one beauty more.
 She hath too much divinity for me:
 You gods, teach her some more humanity.
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