Love
A Lovers Vow
From Poems (ed. Padelford, 1920)
Set we wheras the sonne dothe perche the grene,
Or whear his beames may not dissolue the ise,
In temprat heat, wheare he is felt and sene;
With prowde people, in presence sad and wyse;
Set me in base, or yet in highe degree;
In the long night, or in the shortyst day;
In clere weather, or whear mysts thickest be;
In lofte yowthe, or when my heares be grey;
Set me in earthe, in heauen, or yet in hell;
In hill, in dale, or in the fowming floode;
Thrawle, or at large, aliue whersoo I dwell;
Sike, or in healthe; in yll fame, or in good;
Yours will I be, and with that onely thought
Comfort my self when that my hape is nowght.
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Howard, Henry, Earl of Surrey. “A Lovers Vow.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/surrey/7/.
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Howard, Henry, Earl of Surrey. “A Lovers Vow.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/surrey/7/.
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