| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910. | | | | When I a Lover Pale Do See | | Anonymous |
| | | WHEN 1 I a lover pale do see | |
| Ready to faint and sickish be, | |
| With hollow eyes, and cheeks so thin | |
| As all his face is nose and chin; | |
| When such a ghost I see in pain | 5 |
| Because he is not loved again, | |
| And pale and faint and sigh and cry— | |
| Oh there’s your loving fool! say I. | |
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| ’Tis love with love should be repaid | |
| And equally on both sides laid; | 10 |
| Love is a load a horse would kill | |
| If it do hang on one side still; | |
| But if he needs will be so fond | |
| As rules of reason go beyond, | |
| And love where he’s not loved again, | 15 |
| Faith, let him take it for his pain. | |
| | | Note 1. From New Airs and Dialogues, composed for Voices and Viols, 1678. [back] | | |
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