| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | Away, Delights! | | By John Fletcher (1579–1625) |
| | | AWAY, delights! go seek some other dwelling, | |
| For I must die. | |
| Farewell, false love! thy tongue is ever telling | |
| Lie after lie. | |
| For ever let me rest now from thy smarts; | 5 |
| Alas, for pity, go, | |
| And fire their hearts | |
| That have been hard to thee! Mine was not so. | |
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| Never again deluding love shall know me, | |
| For I will die; | 10 |
| And all those griefs that think to overgrow me, | |
| Shall be as I: | |
| For ever will I sleep, while poor maids cry— | |
| ‘Alas, for pity stay, | |
| And let us die | 15 |
| With thee! Men cannot mock us in the clay.’ | | | | |
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