| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910. | | | | Song: ‘Phillis is my only joy’ | | By Sir Charles Sedley (1639–1701) |
| | | PHILLIS is my only joy, | |
| Faithless as the winds or seas, | |
| Sometimes coming, sometimes coy, | |
| Yet she never fails to please; | |
| If with a frown | 5 |
| I am cast down, | |
| Phillis smiling | |
| And beguiling | |
| Makes me happier than before. | |
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| Though alas! too late I find | 10 |
| Nothing can her fancy fix, | |
| Yet the moment she is kind | |
| I forgive her all her tricks; | |
| Which though I see, | |
| I can’t get free. | 15 |
| She deceiving, | |
| I believing, | |
| What need lovers wish for more? | | | | |
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