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First Line: False, foolish heart! Didst thou not say
Last Line: Without thee, then without a mistris thou.
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of


1.

FAlse, foolish Heart! didst thou not say,
That thou wouldst never leave me more?
Behold again 'tis fled away;
Fled as farre from me as before.
I strove to bring it back again,
I cryed and hollowed after it in vain.

2.

Even so the gentle Tyrian Dame,
When neither Grief nor Love prevail,
Saw the dear object of her flame,
Th' ingrateful Trojan hoist his saile:
Aloud she call'd to him to stay;
The wind bore him, and her lost words away.

3.

The dolefull Ariadne so,
On the wide shore forsaken stood:
False Theseus, whither dost thou go?
Afar false Theseus cut the flood.
But Bacchus came to her reliefe;
Bacchus himselfe's too weak to ease my griefe.

4.

Ah senceless Heart, to take no rest,
But travail thus eternally!
Thus to be frozen in every brest!
And to be scorcht in every Eye!
Wandring about like wretched Caine,
Thrust out, ill us'd by all, but by none slaine!

5.

Well; since thou wilt not here remaine,
I'll even to live without Thee try;
My Head shall take the greater pain,
And all thy duties shall supply;
I can more eas'ly live I know
Without Thee, then without a Mistris thou.





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