| Fuess and Stearns, comps. The Little Book of Society Verse. 1922. | | | | Out upon It, I Have Loved | | By Sir John Suckling |
| | | OUT upon it, I have loved | |
| Three whole days together; | |
| And am like to love three more,— | |
| If it prove fine 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 in her place! | | | | |
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