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Poems and Songs

by Thomas Flatman. The Fourth Edition with many Additions and Amendments
Flatman, Thomas (1637-1688)

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The Humourist.

SONG.

I

Good faith I never was but once so mad
To dote upon an idle woman's Face.
And then alass! my fortune was so bad
To see another chosen in my place;
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And yet I courted her, I'm very sure,
With Love as true as his was, and as pure.

II

But if I ever be so fond again
To undertake the second part of Love,
To reassume that most unmanlike pain,
Or after shipwrack do the Ocean prove;
My Mistris must be gentle, kind, and free,
Or I'le be as indifferent as she.
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