Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.

Love is a sickness full of woes, all remedies refusing.

Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born, Relieve my languish and restore the light; With dark forgetting of my care return. And let the day be time enough to mourn The shipwreck of my ill adventured youth: Let waking eyes suffice to wail their scorn Without the torment of the night's untruth.

We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes.

And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain of our best glories shall be sent, 't unknowing Nations with our stores? What worlds in the yet unformed Occident may come refined with the accents that are ours?

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.

Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born; Relive my languish, and restore the light.