Love
Her Answer
From A Poetical Rhapsody (1602), ed. A. H. Bullen (1890–91)
Love
Sweet Lord, your flame still burning,
And your consuming anguish,
Cannot be more than mine, in which I languish;
Nor more your heart is moved,
To end your grief and mine, so long time proved:
But if I yield, and so your love decreaseth,
Then I my lover lose, and your love ceaseth.
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Codex Note
Signed 'Ignoto' in the Rhapsody.
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Anonymous (Elizabethan miscellanies). “Her Answer.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-elizabethan-miscellanies/112/.
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