Love
Virelay
From Poems on Several Occasions (1689)
Love
Thou cruel Fair, I go
To seek out any Fate but thee,
Since there is none can wound me so,
Nor that has half thy cruelty;
Thou cruel Fair, I go.
For ever then farewell,
'Tis a long leave I take, but oh!
To tarry with thee here is Hell,
And twenty thousand Hells to go;
For ever though farewell.
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MLA
Cotton, Charles. “Virelay.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cotton/26/.
Chicago
Cotton, Charles. “Virelay.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cotton/26/.
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