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Edmund Waller’s poem “On a Girdle” invokes this thing in its final line after asking “Give me but what this ribbon bound.” A poem titled for this thing says “She’s all states, and all princes, I, / Nothing else is. / Princes do but play us; compared to this.” This physical thing is the focal object of the entire second stanza of “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time.” This thing is asked to go (-5[1])chide “Late school boys and sour prentices” in a John Donne aubade titled for it. The final lines of “To His Coy Mistress” state that though a pair cannot make this thing “Stand still,” (-5[1])they can make it “run.” (-5[1])A sonnet (10[1])whose first line ends with the word for this thing later states “If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun.” For 10 points, Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 says that a “mistress’ eyes are nothing like” what object? ■END■ (10[4])

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