William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | Do Me Right and Do Me Reason | By Thomas Lodge (15581625) |
| BEAUTY, alas! where wast thou born, | |
Thus to hold thyself in scorn? | |
Whenas Beauty kissed to woo thee, | |
Thou by Beauty dost undo me: | |
Heigh-ho! despise me not. | 5 |
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I and thou in sooth are one, | |
Fairer thou, I fairer none: | |
Wanton thou, and wilt thou, wanton, | |
Yield a cruel heart to plant on? | |
Do me right, and do me reason; | 10 |
Cruelty is cursed treason: | |
Heigh-ho! I love, heigh-ho! I love, | |
Heigh-ho! and yet he eyes me not. | | | |
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