<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=499044" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Scrutiny</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why should you swear I am forsworn,<br>Since thine I vowed to be?<br>Lady, it is already morn,<br>And 'twas last night I swore to thee<br>That fond impossibility.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Have I not loved thee much and long,<br>A tedious twelve hours' space?<br>I must all other beauties wrong,<br>And rob thee of a new embrace,<br>Could I still dote upon thy face.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not but all joy in thy brown hair<br>By others may be found;&mdash; <br>But I must search the black and fair,<br>Like skilful mineralists that sound<br>For treasure in unploughed-up ground.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then if, when I have loved my round,<br>Thou prov'st the pleasant she,<br>With spoils of meaner beauties crowned<br>I laden will return to thee,<br>Ev'n sated with variety.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Richard+Lovelace">Richard Lovelace</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=499044" data-title="The Scrutiny de Richard Lovelace" data-description="Why should you swear I am forsworn, Since thine I vowed to be? Lady, it is already morn, And 'twas last night I swore to thee That fond impossibility. Have I not loved thee much and long, A tedious twelve hours' space? I must all other beauties w..."></div> </div> </div>

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