THE KISS Oh, keep your kisses, young provoking girl! I find no taste in any maiden's kiss. Altho' your teeth be whiter than the pearl, I will not drink at fountains such as this. I know a man whose wife did kiss my mouth With kiss more honeyed than the honeycomb. And never another's kiss can slake my drought After that kiss, till judgment hour shall come. Till I do gaze on her for whom I long, If ever God afford such grace to men, I would not love a woman old or young, Till she do kiss me as she kissed me then. -- Anonymous (16th century), translated by the Earl of Longford.