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William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.

Song: ‘Love is a sickness full of woes’

Samuel Daniel (1562–1619)

LOVE is a sickness full of woes,

All remedies refusing;

A plant that with most cutting grows,

Most barren with best using.

Why so?

More we enjoy it, more it dies;

If not enjoy’d, it sighing cries,—

Heigh ho!

Love is a torment of the mind,

A tempest everlasting;

And Jove hath made it of a kind

Not well, nor full, nor fasting.

Why so?

More we enjoy it, more it dies;

If not enjoy’d, it sighing cries,—

Heigh ho!