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The rose is red, the violet’s blue
The honey’s sweet, and so are you
Thou are my love and I am thine
I drew thee to my Valentine
The lot was cast and then I drew
And Fortune said it shou’d be you.

—Gammer Gurton’s Garland, 1784
Collection of English nursery rhymes.

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