Love
Farewell, False Love!
From Lyrics from the Dramatists of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1889)
Away, delights! go seek some other dwelling,
For I must die.
Farewell, false love! thy tongue is ever telling
Lie after lie.
For ever let me rest now from thy smarts;
Alas, for pity, go,
And fire their hearts
That have been hard to thee! mine was not so.
Never again deluding love shall know me,
For I will die;
And all those griefs that think to overgrow me,
Shall be as I:
For ever will I sleep, while poor maids cry,
"Alas, for pity, stay,
And let us die
With thee! men cannot mock us in the clay."
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Fletcher, John. “Farewell, False Love!” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/fletcher_j/19/.
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Fletcher, John. “Farewell, False Love!” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/fletcher_j/19/.
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