The Constant Lover

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The Constant Lover (:44)

by Sir John Suckling

performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode

OUT upon it, I have loved

         Three whole days together!

And am like to love three more,

         If it prove fair weather.

Time shall moult away his wings

         Ere he shall discover

In the whole wide world again

         Such a constant lover.

But the spite on 't is, no praise

         Is due at all to me:

Love with me had made no stays,

         Had it any been but she.

Had it any been but she,

         And that very face,

There had been at least ere this

         A dozen dozen in her place.