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Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. II. The Seventeenth Century: Ben Jonson to Dryden

John Fletcher (1579–1625)

Song: ‘Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan’ (from The Queen of Corinth)

WEEP no more, nor sigh, nor groan;

Sorrow calls no time that ’s gone;

Violets plucked the sweetest rain

Makes not fresh nor grow again;

Trim thy locks, look cheerfully;

Fate’s hid ends eyes cannot see;

Joys as winged dreams fly fast,

Why should sadness longer last?

Grief is but a wound to woe;

Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no mo.