• Love is a sickness full of woes,
    All remedies refusing;
    A plant that with most cutting grows,
    Most barren with best using.
    Why so?

    More we enjoy it, more it dies;
    If not enjoy'd, it sighing cries--
    Heigh ho!

    Love is a torment of the mind,
    A tempest everlasting;
    And Jove hath made it of a kind
    Not...

  • Love is a sickness full of woes,
        All remedies refusing;
    A plant that most with cutting grows,
        Most barren with best using.
            Why so?
    More we enjoy it, more it dies;
    If not enjoyed, it sighing cries
            Heigh-ho!

    Love is a torment of the mind,
        A tempest everlasting;
    And Jove hath made it of a...