| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. |
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| Sir John Suckling. 1609–1642 |
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| 326. The Constant Lover |
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| OUT upon it, I have loved | |
| Three whole days together! | |
| And am like to love three more, | |
| If it prove fair weather. | |
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| Time shall moult away his wings | 5 |
| Ere he shall discover | |
| In the whole wide world again | |
| Such a constant lover. | |
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| But the spite on 't is, no praise | |
| Is due at all to me: | 10 |
| Love with me had made no stays, | |
| Had it any been but she. | |
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| Had it any been but she, | |
| And that very face, | |
| There had been at least ere this | 15 |
| A dozen dozen in her place. | |
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