<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37358" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Curse</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">WHOEVER guesses, thinks, or dreams, he knows<br>Who is my mistress, wither by this curse;<br> Him, only for his purse<br> May some dull whore to love dispose,<br>And then yield unto all that are his foes;<br> May he be scorn'd by one, whom all else scorn,<br> Forswear to others, what to her he hath sworn,<br> With fear of missing, shame of getting, torn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Madness his sorrow, gout his cramps, may he<br>Make, by but thinking who hath made him such;<br> And may he feel no touch<br> Of conscience, but of fame, and be<br>Anguish'd, not that 'twas sin, but that 'twas she;<br> Or may he for her virtue reverence<br> One that hates him only for impotence,<br> And equal traitors be she and his sense.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">May he dream treason, and believe that he<br>Meant to perform it, and confesses, and die,<br> And no record tell why;<br> His sons, which none of his may be,<br>Inherit nothing but his infamy;<br> Or may he so long parasites have fed,<br> That he would fain be theirs whom he hath bred,<br> And at the last be circumcised for bread.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The venom of all stepdames, gamesters' gall,<br>What tyrants and their subjects interwish,<br> What plants, mine, beasts, fowl, fish,<br> Can contribute, all ill, which all<br>Prophets or poets spake, and all which shall<br> Be annex'd in schedules unto this by me,<br> Fall on that man; For if it be a she<br> Nature beforehand hath out-cursèd me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Donne">John Donne</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37358" data-title="The Curse de John Donne" data-description="WHOEVER guesses, thinks, or dreams, he knows/Who is my mistress, wither by this curse;/ Him, only for his purse/ May some dull whore to love dispose,/And then yield unto all that are his foes;/ May he be scorn'd by one, whom all else scorn,/ For..."></div> </div> </div>

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