Was it a forme, a gate, a grace
H. Lawes
Was it a forme, a gate, a grace,
Was it their sweetnes, meerely?
Was it the Heav'n of a bright face,
That made me love so deerly?
Was it a skin of silk and snow,
That soule and sences wounded?
Was't any of these, or all of these,
Whereon my faith was founded?
Ah no! 'twas a far deeper part
Then all the rest that won me;
'Twas a fair cloath'd, but feigning heart,
I lov'd, and has undone me.