Love

Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 84

by John Davies of Hereford c. 1565–1618

From Wittes Pilgrimage (1605)

Love

NO more but so? Why then false Hopes farewel
Why, why so long haue you deluded me?
Saie you (false Faire!) you hate to loue too well?
Although too wel, true loue can neuer be?
Then, too well haue I lou'd you for such loue
That thinks true loue too wel loues what it likes:
Which speech doth you as fond as fickle proue;
And through your tender reputation strikes.
Hate you to loue too wel that lothed Hate:
But hate not true loue kindly to imbrace:
Your grace to loue, my Mind did animate
And can you loue, too wel such loue of Grace?
I so you can, Grace, too well, loues your Frame
Who makes it famous, while you It defame.

MLA

Hereford, John Davies of. “Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 84.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/davies_jh/188/.

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Hereford, John Davies of. “Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 84.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/davies_jh/188/.

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