English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Sir John Suckling
235. Why So Pale and Wan
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Prythee, why so pale?
Will, if looking well can’t move her,
Looking ill prevail?
Prythee, why so pale?
Prythee, why so mute?
Saying nothing do’t?
Prythee, why so mute?
This cannot take her;
If of herself she will not love,
Nothing can make her:
The devil take her!