What Dost Thou Mean To Cheat Me Of My Heart

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Title:     What Dost Thou Mean To Cheat Me Of My Heart
Author: Michael Drayton [More Titles by Drayton]

What dost thou mean to Cheat me of my Heart,
To take all Mine, and give me none again?
Or have thine Eyes such Magic or that Art,
That what They get, They ever doe retain?
Play not the Tyrant, but take some Remorse,
Rebate thy Spleen, if but for Pitties sake;
Or Cruel, if thou can'st not; let us scorse,
And for one Piece of Thine, my whole heart take.
But what of Pitty do I speak to Thee,
Whose Breast is proof against Complaint or Prayer?
Or can I think what my Reward shall be
From that proud Beauty, which was my betrayer?
What talk I of a Heart, when thou hast none?
Or if thou hast, it is a flinty one.

[The end]
Michael Drayton's poem: What Dost Thou Mean To Cheat Me Of My Heart

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