| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | Love’s Keys | | Anonymous |
| | | UNQUIET 1 thoughts, your civil slaughter stint, | |
| And wrap your wrongs within a pensive heart; | |
| And you, my tongue, that makes my mouth a mint | |
| And stamps my thoughts to coin them words by art, | |
| Be still! for if you ever do the like, | 5 |
| I’ll cut the string that makes the hammer strike. | |
| But what can stay my thoughts they may not start? | |
| Or put my tongue in durance for to die? | |
| Whenas these eyes, the keys of mouth and heart, | |
| Open the lock where all my love doth lie; | 10 |
| I’ll seal them up within their lids for ever: | |
| So thoughts and words and looks shall die together. | |
| | | Note 1. From John Dowland’s First Book of Songs or Airs, 1597. [back] | | |
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