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First Line: Fie on this feigning
Last Line: So mayst thou prove kind, or, at the least, less cruel.
Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight


FIE on this feigning,
Is love without desire,
Heat still remaining,
And yet no spark of fire?
Thou art untrue, nor wert with fancy moved,
For desire hath power on all that ever loved.

Shew some relenting,
Or grant thou dost now love:
Two hearts consenting
Shall they no comforts prove?
Yield, or confess that love is without pleasure,
And that women's bounties rob men of their treasure.

Truth is not placed
In words and forced smiles;
Love is not graced
With that which still beguiles:
Love or dislike, yield fire, or give no fuel;
So mayst thou prove kind, or, at the least, less cruel.





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