TO HIS INCONSTANT MISTRESS

by: Thomas Carew (1595?-1639?)

HEN thou, poor Excommunicate

From all the joys of Love, shalt see

The full reward and glorious fate

Which my strong faith shall purchase me,

Then curse thine own inconstancy!

 

A fairer hand than thine shall cure

That heart which thy false oaths did wound;

And to my soul a soul more pure

Than thine shall by Love's hand be bound,

And both with equal glory crown'd.

 

Then shalt thou weep, entreat, complain

To Love, as I did once to thee;

When all thy tears shall be as vain

As mine were then: for thou shalt be

Damn'd for thy false apostasy.

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