Love

Upon Her Beauty and Inconstancy

by Francis Davison c. 1575–c. 1619

From A Poetical Rhapsody (1602), ed. A. H. Bullen (1890–91)

Love

Whosoever longs to try
Both love and jealousy,
My fair inconstant lady let him see,
And he will soon a jealous lover be.

Then he by proof shall know,
As I do to my woe,
How they make my poor heart at once to dwell.
In fire and frost, in heaven and in hell.

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