Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Thomas Carew. 1595?1639?291. To His Inconstant Mistress
WHEN thou, poor Excommunicate | |
From all the joys of Love, shalt see | |
The full reward and glorious fate | |
Which my strong faith shall purchase me, | |
Then curse thine own inconstancy! | 5 |
A fairer hand than thine shall cure | |
That heart which thy false oaths did wound; | |
And to my soul a soul more pure | |
Than thine shall by Love’s hand be bound, | |
And both with equal glory crown’d. | 10 |
Then shalt thou weep, entreat, complain | |
To Love, as I did once to thee; | |
When all thy tears shall be as vain | |
As mine were then: for thou shalt be | |
Damn’d for thy false apostasy. | 15 |