| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | True Love | | By Thomas Campion (1567–1620) |
| | | TURN 1 all thy thoughts to eyes, | |
| Turn all thy hairs to ears, | |
| Change all thy friends to spies | |
| And all thy joys to fears: | |
| True love will yet be free | 5 |
| In spite of jealousy. | |
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| Turn darkness into day, | |
| Conjectures into truth, | |
| Believe what th’ envious say, | |
| Let age interpret youth: | 10 |
| True love will yet be free | |
| In spite of jealousy. | |
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| Wrest every word and look, | |
| Rack every hidden thought, | |
| Or fish with golden hook; | 15 |
| True love cannot be caught: | |
| For that will still be free | |
| In spite of jealousy. | |
| | | Note 1. From Campion’s Fourth Book of Airs, 1617. [back] | | |
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