Oxford Book of English Verse, Part 2 by  Arthur Quiller-Couch

Away, Delights!

Away delights! go seek some other dwelling,

For I must die.

Farewell, false love! thy tongue is ever telling

Lie after lie.

For ever let me rest now from thy smarts;

Alas, for pity go

And fire their hearts

That have been hard to thee! Mine was not so.


Never again deluding love shall know me,

For I will die;

And all those griefs that think to overgrow me

Shall be as I:

For ever will I sleep, while poor maids cry—

"Alas, for pity stay,

And let us die

With thee! Men cannot mock us in the clay."

— John Fletcher
1579-1625   


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