The Passionate Pilgrim (1598)

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Act I, Scene 1

By Shakespeare, Richard Barnfiled, B. Griffin, Thomas Deloney, Christopher Marlowe, Walter Raleigh, and Anonymous.

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Including the addendum to the main poem: Six sonnets to sundry notes of music.

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When my love swears that she is made of truth,
I do believe her, though I know she lies,
That she might think me some untutor'd youth,
Unskilful in the world's false forgeries.
Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young,
Although I know my years be past the best,
I smiling credit her false-speaking tongue,
Outfacing faults in love with love's ill rest.
But wherefore says my love that she is young?
And wherefore say not I that I am old?
O, love's best habit is a soothing tongue,
And age, in love, loves not to have years told.
Therefore I'll lie with love, and love with me,
Since that our faults in love thus smother'd be.

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The Passionate Pilgrim (1598)

Act I, Scene 1

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