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9. When loue and time.

                      1 
       When loue and time and measure makes his ground,
       Time that must end though loue can neuer die,
       Tis loue betwixt a shadow and a sound,
       A loue not in the hart but in the eie,
             A loue that ebbes and flowes now vp now downe,
             A mornings fauor and an euenings frowne.

                      2 
       Sweete lookes shew loue, yet they are but as beames,
       Faire wordes seeme true, yet they are but as wind,
       Eies shed their teares yet are but outward streames:
       Sighes paint a sadnes in the falsest minde.
             Lookes, wordes, teares, sighes, shew loue when loue they leaue,
             False harts can weepe, sigh, sweare, and yet deceiue.
    

words by: John Lilliatt (?)