Love
SONG.
NO, no, faire Heretique, it needs must bee
But an ill Love in mee,
And worse for thee.
For were it in my Power,
To love thee now this hower,
More than I did the last;
I would then so fall,
I might not Love at all;
Love that can flow, and can admit increase,
Admitts as well an Ebb and may grow lesse.
2
True Love is stil the same; the torrid Zones,
And those more frigid ones,
It must not know:
For Love growne cold or hot,
Is Lust, or Friendship, not
The thing wee have;
For that's a flame would die,
Held downe, or up to high▪
Then think I love more than I can expresse,
And would love more, could I but love thee lesse.
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Suckling, John. “SONG.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/suckling/34/.
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Suckling, John. “SONG.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/suckling/34/.
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