Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies. Love is all truth, Lust…

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies. Love is all truth, Lust full of forgèd lies.

William Shakespeare

Venus and Adonis · 1593

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Shakespeare, William. "Venus and Adonis." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.

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Shakespeare, William. Venus and Adonis. London: Richard Field, 1593, I. 803.

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