Katherine Phillips - Against Love - Ghizela Rowe

Againts love

Like Katherine Phillips

Hence Cupid with your cheating toys

Your real griefs and painted joys

Your pleasure which itself destroys

Lovers like men in fevers burn and rave

And only what will injure them do crave

Men's weakness makes love so severe

They give him power by their fear

And make the shackles which they wear

Who to another does his heart submit

Makes his own idol and then worships it

Him whose heart is all his own

Peace and liberty does crown

He apprehends no killing frown

He feels no raptures which are joys diseased

And is not much transported but still pleased