Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Sir John Suckling. 16091642326. The Constant Lover
OUT upon it, I have loved | |
Three whole days together! | |
And am like to love three more, | |
If it prove fair weather. | |
Time shall moult away his wings | 5 |
Ere he shall discover | |
In the whole wide world again | |
Such a constant lover. | |
But the spite on ‘t is, no praise | |
Is due at all to me: | 10 |
Love with me had made no stays, | |
Had it any been but she. | |
Had it any been but she, | |
And that very face, | |
There had been at least ere this | 15 |
A dozen dozen in her place. |