To my Inconstant Mistress
To my Inconstant Mistress
Original Text
Thomas Carew, Poems (J. D. for T. Walkley, 1640). STC 4620.
1When thou, poor excommunicate
2 From all the joys of love, shalt see
3The full reward and glorious fate
4 Which my strong faith shall purchase me,
5 Then curse thine own inconstancy.
6A fairer hand than thine shall cure
7 That heart, which thy false oaths did wound;
8And to my soul, a soul more pure
9 Than thine shall by Love's hand be bound,
10 And both with equal glory crown'd.
11Then shalt thou weep, entreat, complain
12 To Love, as I did once to thee;
13When all thy tears shall be as vain
14 As mine were then, for thou shalt be
15 Damn'd for thy false apostasy.
Publication Start Year
1640
RPO poem Editors
N. J. Endicott
RPO Edition
3RP 1.218-19.
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