. An English garner; ingatherings from our history and literature. 2IO Thomas Campions THE SECOND X^iQHT Conceit? of JL(Ove^?. AiN MEN! whose follies make a god of love ;Whose blindness, beauty doth immortal not what you desire, but what you prove!Count those things good, that are; not thosethat seem !I cannot call her true, thats false to me ;Nor make of women, more than women be. How fair an entrance breaks the way to love !How rich of golden hope, and gay delight!What heart ? cannot a modest beauty move !Who seeing clear day, once, will dream of night ?She seemed a saint,
. An English garner; ingatherings from our history and literature. 2IO Thomas Campions THE SECOND X^iQHT Conceit? of JL(Ove^?. AiN MEN! whose follies make a god of love ;Whose blindness, beauty doth immortal not what you desire, but what you prove!Count those things good, that are; not thosethat seem !I cannot call her true, thats false to me ;Nor make of women, more than women be. How fair an entrance breaks the way to love !How rich of golden hope, and gay delight!What heart ? cannot a modest beauty move !Who seeing clear day, once, will dream of night ?She seemed a saint, that brake her faith with me;But proved a women, as all other be. So bitter is their sweet, that True Content, Unhappy men, in them may never find : Ah ! but without them, none. Both must consent, Else uncouth are the joys of either kind. Let us then praise their good, forget their ill! Men must be men ; and women, women still. Light Conceits of Lovers. 211
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