ON LOVE.
by Robert Herrick


LOVE bade me ask a gift,
    And I no more did move
But this, that I might shift
    Still with my clothes my love :
That favour granted was ;
    Since which, though I love many,
Yet so it comes to pass
    That long I love not any.


Move, urge.



Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 124.


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