| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Idea | | Sonnet 19. You cannot love, my pretty Heart! and why? | | Michael Drayton (1563–1631) |
| | [First printed in 1599 (No. 2), and in all later editions.]
To Humour |
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YOU cannot love, my pretty Heart! and why? | |
| There was a time you told me that you would; | |
| But now again, you will the same deny! | |
| If it might please you, would to God you could! | |
| What, will you hate? Nay, that you will not neither! | 5 |
| Nor love, nor hate! how then? What will you do? | |
| What, will you keep a mean then betwixt either? | |
| Or will you love me, and yet hate me too? | |
| Yet serves not this! What next, what other shift? | |
| You Will, and Will Not; what a coil is here! | 10 |
| I see your craft! Now, I perceive your drift! | |
| And all this while, I was mistaken there. | |
| Your love and hate is this, I now do prove you! | |
| You love in hate, by hate to make me love you. | | | |
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