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First Line: Sweet love with skill dissembled, sweet disdain
Last Line: For to denying faith is heresy.
Subject(s): Scottish Translations


SWEET love with skill dissembled, sweet disdain,
Sweet childish wrath, unsanctioned by the heart;
Sweet exile, self-imposed with secret smart,
To see me not, nor write, and anger feign.

Sweet friendship often lost, then found again,
Sweet when I visits pay to stand apart;
Nor bow, nor look, but with transparent art
Pretend that others of more worth detain.

Sweet friendship interchanged with waywardness,
Much to disguise, and only half express,
To call me fickle, void of loyalty.

To blame my conscience, disallow my faith,
My heart can bear no worse, no sharper scathe;
For to denying faith is heresy.





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