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title: "2 Ronsard Writ Quotes by 1 author"
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> [“When you are old, at evening candle-lit beside the fire bending to your wool, read out my verse and murmur, "Ronsard writ this praise for me when I was beautiful." And not a maid but, at the sound of it,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pierre-de-ronsard/when-you-are-old-at-evening-candle-lit-beside-the-fire-bending-to/)

[Pierre de Ronsard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pierre-de-ronsard/)

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> [When you are old, at evening candlelit, Beside the fire bending to your wool, Read out my verse and murmur, "Ronsard writ This praise for me when I was beautiful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pierre-de-ronsard/when-you-are-old-at-evening-candlelit-beside-the-fire-bending-to-your/)

[Pierre de Ronsard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pierre-de-ronsard/)

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