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Thy Question Stanza Richard Lovelace Scrutiny  Explore I

Front Richard Lovelace - The Scrutiny 
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'Could I still dote upon thy face.

Not, but all joy in thy brown hair,
By other may be found;'
Back •Answered question from first stanza in the second - denying her input but cutting off the stanza at the rhetorical question
•Ensures emphatic stress of 'not' syllable - especially as followed by caesura. 

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