| Fuess and Stearns, comps. The Little Book of Society Verse. 1922. | | | | Why So Pale and Wan? | | By Sir John Suckling |
| | | WHY so pale and wan, fond lover? | |
| Prithee why so pale? | |
| Will, when looking well can’t move her, | |
| Looking ill prevail? | |
| Prithee why so pale? | 5 |
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| Why so dull and mute, young sinner? | |
| Prithee why so mute? | |
| Will, when speaking well can’t win her, | |
| Say nothing do ’t? | |
| Prithee why so mute? | 10 |
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| Quit, quit, for shame, this will not move, | |
| This cannot take her; | |
| If of herself she will not love, | |
| Nothing can make her; | |
| The devil take her. | 15 | | | |
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