Love
Love Is Blind, and a Wanton
From Lyrics from the Dramatists of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1889)
Love
Love is blind, and a wanton;
In the whole world, there is scant one
Such another:
No, not his mother.
He hath plucked her doves and sparrows,
To feather his sharp arrows,
And alone prevaileth,
While sick Venus waileth.
But if Cypris once recover
The wag, it shall behove her
To look better to him,
Or she will undo him.
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Jonson, Ben. “Love Is Blind, and a Wanton.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/37/.
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Jonson, Ben. “Love Is Blind, and a Wanton.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/37/.
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