Шутка Джона Китса. Джон Китс

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      Тогда скажу, что можете любить.

      Modern love

      AND what is love? It is a doll dress'd up

      For idleness to cosset, nurse, and dandle;

      A thing of soft misnomers, so divine

      That silly youth doth think to make itself

      Divine by loving, and so goes on

      Yawning and doting a whole summer long,

      Till Miss's comb is made a pearl tiara,

      And common Wellingtons turn Romeo boots;

      Then Cleopatra lives at number seven,

      And Antony resides in Brunswick Square.

      Fools! if some passions high have warm'd the world,