He is stark mad, who ever says
That he hath been in love an hour
Yet not that love so soon decays
But that it can ten in less space devour;
Who will believe me, if I swear
That I have had the plague a year?
Who would not laugh at me, if I should say
I saw a flask of powder burn a day?

Ah, what a trifle is a heart
If once into love's hands it come!
All other griefs allow a part
To other griefs, and ask themselves but some;
They come to us, but us Love draws
He swallows us, and never chaws:
By him, as by chain'd shot, whole ranks to die
He is the tyrant pike, our hearts the fry
If 'twere not so, what did become
Of my heart, when I first saw thee?
I brought a heart into the room
But from the room, I carried none with me:
If it had gone to thee, I know
Mine would have taught thine heart to show
More pity unto me: but Love, alas
At one first blow did shiver it as glass
Yet nothing can to nothing fall
Nor any place be empty quite
Therefore I think my breast hath all
Those pieces still, though they be not unite;
And now as broken glasses show
A hundred lesser faces, so
My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore
But after one such love, can love no more