Love
Fickleness
From Lyrics from the Dramatists of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1889)
Love
I could never have the power
To love one above an hour,
But my head would prompt mine eye
On some other man to fly.
Venus, fix thou mine eyes fast,
Or, if not, give me all that I shall see at last.
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Codex Note
Listed by Bullen under Beaumont and Fletcher jointly.
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Fletcher, John. “Fickleness.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/fletcher_j/8/.
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Fletcher, John. “Fickleness.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/fletcher_j/8/.
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