Edward Sherburne

Sir Edward Sherburne (18 September 1618 – 4 November 1702) was an English poet and translator and a staunch royalist.

Quotes

There's no dallying with love
Though he be a child and blind.

• There's no dallying with love
    Though he be a child and blind;
  Then let none the danger prove,
    Who would to himself be kind:
  Smile he does when thou dost play,
  But his smiles to death betray.
  Lately with the Boy I sported;
    Love I did not, yet love feigned;
  Had not mistress, yet I courted;
    Sighed I did, yet was not pained;
  Till at last this love in jest,
  Proved in earnest my unrest.
  When I saw my fair one first,
    In a feigned fire I burned;
  But true love my poor heart pierced,
    When her eyes on mine she turned:
  So a real wound I took,
  For my counterfeited look.
  Slighted Love, his skill to show,
    Struck me with a mortal dart;
  Then I learnt that 'gainst his bow,
    Vain are the weak helps of art;
  And thus captived, found that true
  Doth dissembled love pursue.
  • "The Surprisal" in Witt's Recreations (1663) and Venus Looking-glass (1669)