Love

Philistus' Farewell to false Clorinda

by Anonymous (Elizabethan miscellanies) c. 1575–1602

From England's Helicon (1600), ed. A. H. Bullen (1887)

Love

Clorinda false, adieu! thy love torments, me.
Let Thyrsis have thy heart, since he contents thee.
Oh, grief and bitter anguish!
For thee I languish;
Fain I, alas! would hide it.

Oh! but who can abide it?
I cannot I, abide it.
Adieu, adieu then,
Farewell!
Leave my death now desiring.
For thou hast thy requiring.
Thus spake Philistus on his hook relying.
And sweetly fell a-dying.

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Printed in England's Helicon without an author's name, marked "Out of M. Morley's Madrigals."

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Anonymous (Elizabethan miscellanies). “Philistus' Farewell to false Clorinda.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-elizabethan-miscellanies/18/.

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Anonymous (Elizabethan miscellanies). “Philistus' Farewell to false Clorinda.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-elizabethan-miscellanies/18/.

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