Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FIE ON LOVE, by JAMES SHIRLEY


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First Line: Now, fie on foolish love! It not befits
Last Line: To marry is to make it ten times worse.
Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


Now, fie on foolish love! It not befits
Or man or woman know it;
Love was not meant for people in their wits,
And they that fondly show it
Betray the straw and feathers in their brain,
And shall have Bedlam for their pain.
If single love be such a curse,
To marry is to make it ten times worse.





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