| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | Advice to a Girl | | By Thomas Campion (1567–1620) |
| | | NEVER 1 love unless you can | |
| Bear with all the faults of man! | |
| Men sometimes will jealous be, | |
| Though but little cause they see, | |
| And hang the head as discontent, | 5 |
| And speak what straight they will repent. | |
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| Men that but one Saint adore | |
| Make a show of love to more; | |
| Beauty must be scorned in none, | |
| Though but truly served in one: | 10 |
| For what is courtship but disguise? | |
| True hearts may have dissembling eyes. | |
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| Men, when their affairs require, | |
| Must awhile themselves retire; | |
| Sometimes hunt, and sometimes hawk, | 15 |
| And not ever sit and talk:— | |
| If these and such-like you can bear, | |
| Then like, and love, and never fear! | |
| | | Note 1. From Campion’s Third Book of Airs, 1617. [back] | | |
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