Love

Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 62

by John Davies of Hereford c. 1565–1618

From Wittes Pilgrimage (1605)

Love

WIll you (your Will be done) haue me loue so,
That by my Looks the same you best may see?
And wil you loue in Deed, and hate in show?
Do as you will, your wil is law to me.
Yet Show hath much deceite, but Substance none;
Then, most substantiall is the truest loue:
The foreheads falshood is more seen then known,
Yet known of most, that least thereof approue.
Then, sith the Front's so full of Falacy,
I cannot trust yours, more then you can myne:
But if you would our Harts should open lye
Change Harts with me, or let vs them combine:
Then, feelingly, our harts we so shall kno,
To This (Sowr Sweet) say double yea, or No.

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Hereford, John Davies of. “Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 62.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/davies_jh/172/.

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Hereford, John Davies of. “Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 62.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/davies_jh/172/.

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