“Sweet are the words of Love, sweeter his thoughts:
Sweetest of all what Love nor says nor thinks.”
Richard Garnett (1835–1906) British scholar, librarian, biographer and poet
De Flagello myrteo. clxv.
“Ah! what is love? It is a pretty thing,
As sweet unto a shepherd as a king;
And sweeter too,
For kings have cares that wait upon a crown,
And cares can make the sweetest love to frown;
Ah then, ah then,
If country loves such sweet desires do gain,
What lady would not love a shepherd swain?”
"The Shepherd's Wife's Song", line 1, from Mourning Garment (1590); Dyce p. 305.
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