philip rosseter - and would you fain the reason know lyrics
and would you fain the reason know
why my sad eyes so often flow?
my heart ebbs joy, when they do so
and loves the moon by whom they go
and will you ask, “why pale i look?”
’tis not with poring on my book:
my mistress’ cheek, my blood hath took
for her, mine own hath me forsook
do not demand, “why i am mute?”
love’s silence doth all speech confute
they set the note, then tune the lute;
hearts frame their thoughts, then tongues their suit
do not admire, “why i admire?”
my fever is no other’s firе:
each several heart hath his dеsire;
else proof is false, and truth a liar
if why i love you should see cause!
love should have form like other laws
but fancy pleads not by the clause:
’tis as the sea, still vext with flaws
no fault upon my love espy:
for you perceive not with my eye;
my palate, to your taste may lie
yet please itself deliciously
then let my sufferance be mine own:
sufficeth it these reasons shown:
reason and love are ever known
to fight till both be overthrown
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