Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. II. The Seventeenth Century: Ben Jonson to Dryden
Sir John Suckling (16091642)Orsames Song in Aglaura
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Prithee, why so pale?
Will, when looking well can’t move her,
Looking ill prevail?
Prithee, why so pale?
Prithee, why so mute?
Will, when speaking well can’t win her,
Saying nothing do ’t?
Prithee, why so mute?
This cannot take her.
If of herself she will not love,
Nothing can make her:
The devil take her!