William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910.
When I a Lover Pale Do SeeAnonymous
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Ready to faint and sickish be,
With hollow eyes, and cheeks so thin
As all his face is nose and chin;
When such a ghost I see in pain
Because he is not loved again,
And pale and faint and sigh and cry—
Oh there’s your loving fool! say I.
And equally on both sides laid;
Love is a load a horse would kill
If it do hang on one side still;
But if he needs will be so fond
As rules of reason go beyond,
And love where he’s not loved again,
Faith, let him take it for his pain.