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Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?

Abraham Cowley

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Abraham Cowley
Age: 49 †
Born: 1618
Born: January 1
Died: 1667
Died: July 28
Essayist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
the City
Less
Mute
Thyself
Lover
Fish
Fishes
Thou
Lovers
Silent

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