The Mind
A farewell to conceipt
From Melancholike Humours (1600)
FAREWELL conceit: Cōceit no more wel fare,
Hope feeds the heart with humours, to no end:
Fortune is false in dealing of her share:
Vertue, in heauen, must only seeke a friend.
Adieu desire▪ desire, no more adieu.
Will hath no leasure to regard desart:
Loue findes, too late, the prouerbe all too true,
That beauties eyes stoode neuer in her heart.
Away poore loue: loue, seeke no more a way
Vnto thy woe, where wishing is no wealth:
In nightes deepe darkenesse, neuer looke for day,
Nor in hearts sicknesse, euer seeke for health.
Desire, conceipt, away, adieu, farewell.
Loue is deceiu'd, that seeks for heauen in hell.
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Breton, Nicholas. “A farewell to conceipt.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/breton/32/.
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Breton, Nicholas. “A farewell to conceipt.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/breton/32/.
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