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AVERSION. 
PINK, CHINA. 
Dianthus Variegatus. 
Language — AVERSION. 
If I am fair, ’tis for myself alone ; 
I do not wish to have a sweetheart near me, 
Nor would I call another’s heart my own, 
Nor have a gallant lover to revere me ; 
For surely I would plight my faith to none, 
Though many an amorous wit might jump to hear me; 
For I have heard that lovers prove deceivers, 
When once they find that maidens are believers. 
Michel Angelo. 
Do I not in plainest truth 
Tell you — I do not, nor I cannot, love you ? 
Shakspeakb. 
Nay, if she love me not, I care not for her: 
Shall I look pale because the maiden blooms ? 
Or sigh because she smiles on others ? 
Not I, by Heaven! I hold my peace too dear, 
To let it, like the plume upon her cap, 
Shake at each nod that her caprice shall dictate. 
Old Play. Awtiqcaby. 
