Love is no true-made looking-glass Which perfect yields the shape we bring; It ugly shows us all that was, And flatters every future thing. (Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke)

Love is no true-made looking-glass Which perfect yields the shape we bring; It ugly shows us all that was, And flatters every future thing.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

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