Song: Why so pale and wan fond lover?

Song: Why so pale and wan fond lover?

Original Text
[Sir John Suckling,] Aglaura (J. Haviland for T. Walkley, 1638). STC 23420. PR 3718 A63 1638A Robarts Library
1Why so pale and wan fond lover?
2    Prithee why so pale?
3Will, when looking well can't move her,
4    Looking ill prevail?
5    Prithee why so pale?
6Why so dull and mute young sinner?
7    Prithee why so mute?
8Will, when speaking well can't win her,
9    Saying nothing do't?
10    Prithee why so mute?
11Quit, quit for shame, this will not move,
12    This cannot take her;
13If of herself she will not love,
14    Nothing can make her;
15    The devil take her.
Publication Start Year
1638
RPO poem Editors
N. J. Endicott
RPO Edition
3RP.1.330; RPO 1994-2000.
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