Valentine's Day Love Token

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Will and Guy's Valentine's Day Love Token

Here we have an interesting and curious 18th century love token. We know that author is John Abbott but all that we know about his beloved is that her initials are SW and she is his 'Sweet Turtle Dove' dating from the 18th Century.

Will and Guy made these folding cubes in our youth, but we never created anything as beautiful as John Abbott's love token.

With patience and not a little luck, it is possible to fold the love token into a polygon in such a way as to reveal a love poem.

This is what John Abbott's love poem says to his 'Sweet Turtle Dove', incidentally doves were symbolic of fidelity as they mate for life.

On the outside - Back

In this inside sweet Turtle Dove
I write a Moral of my love
To you my Dear and only Joy
Requite me and be not Coy
Banish my Rivals from my sight
And with your love me now requite
Cupid my guide he doth my heart direct
To write to you whom I so much respect
By reason of the Troubles of my Mind
I yet may Love and yet no comfort find
So now the Powers of Heaven protect enjoined
The Swain that Love hath conquered

On the outside - Front

Sweet Love this Heart when you behold
Will break in twain when you [?] unfold
Even so my heart with lovesick pain
Soon wounded is and broke in twain

Inside - Front

The farther we fly the faster we tye

But Cupid with his fatal Dart
Hath deeply wounded my poor heart
A heart betwixt us fixd a cross
Which makes me sore lament my loss
My dearest dear and blest Divine
I've pictured here your heart and mine
Yet I am in hopes when this is gone
That our two hearts may join in one

Inside - Center

If you deny my Loving Bride to be
I am berieved of all Felicity
By Reason of the trouble of my Mind
I yet may find Love and yet no comfort find

So then pale death my Rosey bloom must end
And bring all Grief and Sorrows to an End
After a Mournful time of sad despair
Occasioned by the frowns of you my Dear

You are my Dear the Girl and only Maid
That wholly hath my yielding heart betrayed
The thoughts of you are always in my Mind
So be not cruel nor prove to be unkind

My meaning is an Matrimonial Joy
Which to forbear my happiness destroy
Forever will my heart have any ease
Till our two hearts are joined or linked like these

The gift of John Abbott

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