Mike Marcus writes:

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”

Couplet by Christopher Marlowe:
"Where both deliberate, the love is slight:
Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight?

Philip Sidney's sonnet #2, from Astrophel and Stella:
Not at first sight, nor with a dribbèd shot,
      Love gave the wound, which, while I breathe will bleed;
      But known worth did in mine of time proceed,
Till by degrees it had full conquest got.
I saw, and liked; I liked, but lovèd not;
      I loved, but straight did not what Love decreed:
      At length to Love's decrees I forced agreed,
Yet with repining at so partial lot.
      Now even that footstep of lost liberty
Is gone; and now, like slave-born Muscovite,
I call it praise to suffer tyranny;
And now employ the remnant of my wit
      To make myself believe that all is well,
      While with a feeling skill I paint my hell. "
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