<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408239" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Lover Excuseth Himself Of Suspected Change.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">THOUGH I regarded not<br>The promise made by me ;<br>Or passed not to spot<br>My faith and honesty :<br>Yet were my fancy strange,<br>And wilful will to wite,<br>If I sought now to change<br>A falcon for a kite.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All men might well dispraise<br>My wit and enterprise,<br>If I esteemed a pese1<br>Above a pearl in price :<br>Or judged the owl in sight<br>The sparhawk to excel ;<br>Which flieth but in the night,<br>As all men know right well.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or if I sought to sail<br>Into the brittle port,<br>Where anchor hold doth fail<br>To such as do resort ;<br>And leave the haven sure,<br>Where blows no blustering wind ;<br>No fickleness in ure,2<br>So far-forth as I find.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No ! think me not so light,<br>Nor of so churlish kind,<br>Though it lay in my might<br>My bondage to unbind,<br>That I would leave the hind<br>To hunt the gander's foe.<br>No ! no ! I have no mind<br>To make exchanges so.<br>Nor yet to change at all ;<br>For think, it may not be<br>That I should seek to fall<br>From my felicity.<br>Desirous for to win,<br>And loth for to forego ;<br>Or new change to begin ;<br>How may all this be so ?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The fire it cannot freeze,<br>For it is not his kind ;<br>Nor true love cannot lese<br>The constance of the mind.<br>Yet as soon shall the fire<br>Want heat to blaze and burn ;<br>As I, in such desire,<br>Have once a thought to turn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Howard">Henry Howard</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408239" data-title="The Lover Excuseth Himself Of Suspected Change. de Henry Howard" data-description="THOUGH I regarded not The promise made by me ; Or passed not to spot My faith and honesty : Yet were my fancy strange, And wilful will to wite, If I sought now to change A falcon for a kite. All men might well dispraise My wit and enterprise, If ..."></div> </div> </div>

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