by John Suckling, Sir (1609 - 1642)

Language: English 
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.

Composition:

    Set to music by Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953), "The constant lover ", op. 28 no. 5 (1925), published 1926 [ voice and piano ], from Five Jacobean Lyrics, no. 5, London, Boosey

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Word count: 92