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1598 F. Meres tr. Luis de Granada Sinners Guyde i. xix. 202 Hee hath..imployed all the strength and sinnowes of his reason and vnderstanding..in compozing Poems, in making loue Verses [Sp. en componer sonetos llenos de agudeza y sentencias].

1647 A. Cowley (title) The mistresse, or severall copies of love-verses.

a1708 Walsh in J. Dryden Misc. (1727) IV. 335 Petrarch..being by much the most famous of all the Moderns who have written Love-Verses.

1799 F. Reynolds Laugh when you Can i. 4 While I'm copying out pleadings in one room, you're writing love verses in another.

1841 T. D. Lauder Legendary Tales Highlands I. 100 Here is one..which would seem to have a curious posey in it; some ready-made love verse, I suppose.

1927 E. V. Gordon Introd. Old Norse p. xliv Some love-verses of his were there inserted in the poem.

2003 Mod. Lang. Rev. 98 504 Matthew Bell demonstrates from examples of love verse over Goethe's entire career how love is always grounded in nature.