William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910.
Song: Phillis is my only joySir Charles Sedley (16391701)
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Faithless as the winds or seas,
Sometimes coming, sometimes coy,
Yet she never fails to please;
If with a frown
I am cast down,
Phillis smiling
And beguiling
Makes me happier than before.
Nothing can her fancy fix,
Yet the moment she is kind
I forgive her all her tricks;
Which though I see,
I can’t get free.
She deceiving,
I believing,
What need lovers wish for more?