tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276943009169105524.post2658743861030285196..comments2013-06-20T19:21:30.265-07:00Comments on Uber Otaku - Life: CongratulationsKireiXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14675317246975252741noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276943009169105524.post-2709355315859837592011-03-10T18:57:07.141-08:002011-03-10T18:57:07.141-08:00Love's Diet
"TO what a cumbersome unwiel...Love's Diet<br /><br />"TO what a cumbersome unwieldiness <br />And burdenous corpulence my love had grown,<br />But that I did, to make it less, <br />And keep it in proportion, <br />Give it a diet, made it feed upon<br />That which love worst endures, discretion<br /><br />Above one sigh a day I allow'd him not, <br />Of which my fortune, and my faults had part ; <br />And if sometimes by stealth he got <br />A she sigh from my mistress' heart,<br />And thought to feast upon that, I let him see<br />'Twas neither very sound, nor meant to me. <br /><br />If he wrung from me a tear, I brined it so <br />With scorn and shame, that him it nourish'd not ;<br />If he suck'd hers, I let him know <br />'Twas not a tear which he had got ; <br />His drink was counterfeit, as was his meat ;<br />For eyes, which roll towards all, weep not, but sweat.<br /><br />Whatever he would dictate I writ that,<br />But burnt her letters when she writ to me ;<br />And if that favour made him fat,<br />I said, "If any title be<br />Convey'd by this, ah ! what doth it avail,<br />To be the fortieth name in an entail?"<br /><br />Thus I reclaim'd my buzzard love, to fly <br />At what, and when, and how, and where I choose. <br />Now negligent of sports I lie, <br />And now, as other falconers use, <br />I spring a mistress, swear, write, sigh, and weep ;<br />And the game kill'd, or lost, go talk or sleep."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com