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William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.

True Love

Thomas Campion (1567–1620)

TURN all thy thoughts to eyes,

Turn all thy hairs to ears,

Change all thy friends to spies

And all thy joys to fears:

True love will yet be free

In spite of jealousy.

Turn darkness into day,

Conjectures into truth,

Believe what th’ envious say,

Let age interpret youth:

True love will yet be free

In spite of jealousy.

Wrest every word and look,

Rack every hidden thought,

Or fish with golden hook;

True love cannot be caught:

For that will still be free

In spite of jealousy.