Neuer loue vnlesse you can

T. Campion

Neuer loue vnlesse you can

Beare with all the faults of man:

Men sometimes will iealous bee,

Though but little cause they see;

And hang the head, as discontent,

And speak what straight they will repent.

Men that but one Saint adore,

Make a shew of loue to more:

Beauty must be scorn'd in none,

Though but truely seru'd in one:

For what is courtship but disguise?

True hearts may haue dissembling eyes.

Men when their affaires require,

Must a while themselues retire:

Sometimes hunt, and sometimes hawke,

And not euer sit and talke.

If these, and such like you can beare,

Then like, and loue, and neuer fear.