| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910. | | | | Song: ‘Phillis, men say that all my vows’ | | By Sir Charles Sedley (1639–1701) |
| | | PHILLIS, men say that all my vows | |
| Are to thy fortune paid: | |
| Alas! my heart he little knows | |
| Who thinks my love a trade. | |
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| Were I of all these woods the lord, | 5 |
| One berry from thy hand | |
| More real pleasure would afford | |
| Than all my large command. | |
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| My humble love has learned to live | |
| On what the nicest maid, | 10 |
| Without a conscious blush, may give | |
| Beneath the myrtle shade. | | | | |
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