Tudor and Stuart Love Songs — George Farquhar

LOVERS IN DISGUISE.

How bless'd are lovers in disguise!

Like gods, they see, As I do thee, Unseen by human eyes.

Exposed to view, I'm hid from view, I'm altered, yet the same: The dark conceals me, Love reveals me: Love, which lights me by its flame.

Were you not false, you would me know;

For though your eyes Could not devise, Your heart had told you so.

Your heart would beat With eager heat, And me by sympathy would find: True love might see, One changed like me, False love is only blind.

George Farquhar.