| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910. | | | | A Mock Song | | By Alexander Brome (1620–1666) |
| | | ’TIS true I never was in love; | |
| But now I mean to be, | |
| For there’s no art | |
| Can shield a heart | |
| From love’s supremacy. | 5 |
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| Though in my nonage I have seen | |
| A world of taking faces, | |
| I had not age or wit to ken | |
| Their several hidden graces. | |
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| Those virtues which, though thinly set, | 10 |
| In others are admirèd, | |
| In thee are altogether met, | |
| Which make thee so desirèd; | |
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| That though I never was in love, | |
| Nor never meant to be, | 15 |
| Thyself and parts | |
| Above my arts | |
| Have drawn my heart to thee. | | | | |
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