Tudor and Stuart Love Songs — Alexander Brome

A MOCK SONG.

Tis true I never was in love: But now I mean to be, For there's no art Can shield a heart From love's supremacy.

Though in my nonage I have seen A world of taking faces, I had not age or wit to ken Their several hidden graces.

Those virtues which, though thinly set, In others are admired, In thee are altogether met, Which make thee so desired.

That though I never was in love, Nor never meant to be, Thyself and parts Above my arts Have drawn my heart to thee.

Alexander Brome.