Suckling. [A Poem with the Answer].

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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