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IF I HAVE OFFENDED YOU, By touching you

Closer than you will allow; If I have somehow

Spoken too

Intimately past my due, Taking my first liberty Toward the

Object of my heart's desire; If I have been more than the Fool of free

Reaching at forbidden fire—

If I have been anything You might bring

Innocence in shame to say Over the way

I have of using

Friendship to stage love's display:

If I have been something too Absurdly near offending you; If I have, boy, then try to see How much you have offended me?

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