<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=431374" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Kiss Returned</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">AS WILLIAM walking with his wife was seen,<br>A man of rank admired her lovely mien.<br>Who gave you such a charming fair? he cried,<br>May I presume to kiss your beauteous bride?<br>With all my heart, replied the humble swain,<br>You're welcome, sir:--I beg you'll not refrain;<br>She's at your service: take the boon, I pray;<br>You'll not such offers meet with ev'ry day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE gentleman proceeded as desired;<br>To get a kiss, alone he had aspired;<br>So fervently howe'er he pressed her lip,<br>That Petronella blushed at ev'ry sip.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">SEVEN days had scarcely run, when to his arms,<br>The other took a wife with seraph charms;<br>And William was allowed to have a kiss,<br>That filled his soul with soft ecstatic bliss.<br>Cried he, I wish, (and truly I am grieved)<br>That when the gentleman a kiss received,<br>From her I love, he'd gone to greater height,<br>And with my Petronella passed the night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=La+Fontaine">La Fontaine</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=431374" data-title="The Kiss Returned de La Fontaine" data-description="AS WILLIAM walking with his wife was seen, A man of rank admired her lovely mien. Who gave you such a charming fair? he cried, May I presume to kiss your beauteous bride? With all my heart, replied the humble swain, You're welcome, sir:--I beg you..."></div> </div> </div>

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