I Hear Some Say, This Man Is Not In Love

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Title:     I Hear Some Say, This Man Is Not In Love
Author: Michael Drayton [More Titles by Drayton]

I hear some say, this man is not in love,
Who, can he love? A likely thing they say:
Reade but his verse, and it will easily prove;
O judge not rashly (gentle Sir) I pray,
Because I loosely trifle in this sort,
As one that fain his sorrow would beguile:
You now suppose me, all this time in sport,
And please yourself with this conceit the while.
You shallow censures; sometime see you not
In greatest perills some men pleasant be,
Where fame by death is onely to be got,
They resolute, so stands the case with me;
Where other men, in depth of passion cry,
I laugh at fortune, as in jest to die.

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Michael Drayton's poem: I Hear Some Say, This Man Is Not In Love

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