Song - No, no, fair heretic - from Aglaura

By John Suckling

No, no, fair heretic, it needs must be

But an ill love in me,

And worse for thee.

For were it in my power

To love thee now this hour

More than I did the last,

'Twould then so fall

I might not love at all.

Love that can flow, and can admit increase,

Admits as well an ebb, and may grow less.

True love is still the same; the torrid zones

And those more frigid ones,

It must not know;

For love, grown cold or hot,

Is lust or friendship, not

The thing we have;

For that's a flame would die,

Held down or up too high.

Then think I love more than I can express,

And would love more, could I but love thee less