Sir John Suckling


[A POEM WITH THE ANSWER]

Sir  J.  S.

I
OUT upon it !  I have lov'd
    Three whole days together ;
And am like to love three more,
    If it prove fair weather.

2
Time shall moult away his wings,
    Ere he shall discover
In the whole wide world again
    Such a constant lover.

3
But the spite on 't is, no praise
    Is due at all to me :
Love with me had made no stays,
    Had it any been but she.

4
Had it any been but she,
    And that very face,
There had been at least ere this
    A dozen dozen in her place.



Source:
Suckling, John. The Works of Sir John Suckling. A. Hamilton Thompson, ed.
London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1910. 45-46.




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