Love

Cupid, Pardon What Is Past

by John Fletcher 1576–1625

From Lyrics from the Dramatists of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1889)

Love

Cupid, pardon what is past,
And forgive our sins at last!
Then we will be coy no more,
But thy deity adore;
Troths at fifteen we will plight,
And will tread a dance each night,
In the fields, or by the fire,
With the youths that have desire.
Given ear-rings we will wear,
Bracelets of our lovers' hair,
Which they on our arms shall twist,
With their names carved, on our wrist;
All the money that we owe
We in tokens will bestow;
And learn to write that, when 'tis sent,
Only our loves know what is meant.
Oh, then pardon what is past,
And forgive our sins at last!

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Listed by Bullen under Beaumont and Fletcher jointly.

MLA

Fletcher, John. “Cupid, Pardon What Is Past.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/fletcher_j/6/.

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