Love
Do Me Right and Do Me Reason
From Lyrics from the Dramatists of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1889)
Beauty, alas! where wast thou born,
Thus to hold thyself in scorn?
Whenas Beauty kissed to woo thee,
Thou by Beauty dost undo me:
Heigh-ho! despise me not.
I and thou in sooth are one,
Fairer thou, I fairer none:
Wanton thou, and wilt thou, wanton,
Yield a cruel heart to plant on?
Do me right, and do me reason;
Cruelty is cursed treason:
Heigh-ho! I love, heigh-ho! I love,
Heigh-ho! and yet he eyes me not.
Codex Note
From A Looking Glass for London and England (1594), by Thomas Lodge and Robert Greene.
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Greene, Robert. “Do Me Right and Do Me Reason.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/greene/3/.
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Greene, Robert. “Do Me Right and Do Me Reason.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/greene/3/.
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