Love

Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 86

by John Davies of Hereford c. 1565–1618

From Wittes Pilgrimage (1605)

Love

lT may be as you say. but yet say I
lt should be otherwise then stil you do:
You saie you Loue, I wil not saie you lie,
Because you Loue, and Loue to linger to:
For, if you lou'd me could I loue so long,
For meer Delaies disguizd in Loues Araie
Could I, for so much right reape so much Wrong,
If you lou'd ot alone to show delay?
Delaie, in Loue, is daungerous you know:
Then It you loue sith mine that daunger is:
Who seeing loue wears me in Deed, and Show,
You loue Delaie, to wast me quite, by This:
But, if you loue to wast me so, by That,
Hate me, another while, to make me Fat.

MLA

Hereford, John Davies of. “Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 86.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/davies_jh/190/.

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Hereford, John Davies of. “Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 86.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/davies_jh/190/.

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