Michael Drayton...
Nothing but no and I, and I and no,
How falls it out so strangley you reply?
I tell ye, fair, I'll not be answered so,
With this affirming no, denying I.
I say, I love, you slightly answer, I:
I say, I die, you echo me with I:
Save me, I cry, you sigh me out a no;
Must woe and I have nought but no and I?
No I am I, if I no more can have;
Answer no more, with silence make reply,
And let me take myself what I do crave,
Let no and I, with I and you be so:
Then answer no and I, and I and no.

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