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¶ Dispraise of Loue, and Louers follies. +Added to the second edition. Another copy is in L: Harl. 2127, fol. 25. Printed in Poetical Rhapsody (1608) *, and Westminster Drollery (1671), p. 61. Author: ‘Ignoto’; attributed to Raleigh in Oldys and Birch, The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh (1829), VIII.699. Structure (May/Ringler): 24: 3×8 a8b6a8b6cc8dd6

I F Loue be life, I long to die, Liue they that listlike  for me: And he that gaines the most thereby, A foole at least shall be.  But he that feeles the sorest fits, Scapes with no lesse than losse of wits, Vnhappy life they gaine, Which Loue doe entertaine. 

In day by fainedfeigned, false, deceitful  lookes they liue,  By lying dreames in night, Each frowne a deadly wound doth giue, Each smile a false delight. If’t hapif it happen  their Lady pleasant seeme, It is for others loue they deeme:  If voide she seeme of ioy, Disdaine doth make her coy. 

Such is the peace that Louers finde, Such is the life they leade. Blowne here and there with euery winde  Like flowers in the Mead. Now warre, now peace, now warre againe, Desire, despaire, delight, disdaine, Though dead in midst of life, In peace, and yet at strife. 

FINIS. Ignoto.