| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | False Love | | Anonymous |
| | | WHEN 1 Love on time and measure makes his ground,— | |
| Time that must end, though Love can never die,— | |
| ’Tis Love betwixt a shadow and a sound, | |
| A love not in the heart but in the eye; | |
| A love that ebbs and flows, now up, now down, | 5 |
| A morning’s favour, and an evening’s frown. | |
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| Sweet looks show love, yet they are but as beams; | |
| Fair words seem true, yet they are but as wind; | |
| Eyes shed their tears, yet are but outward streams; | |
| Sighs paint a shadow in the falsest mind. | 10 |
| Looks, words, tears, sighs, show love when love they leave, | |
| False hearts can weep, sigh, swear, and yet deceive. | |
| | | Note 1. From Robert Jones’ First Book of Songs and Airs, 1601. [back] | | |
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