His Remedy for Love <br /> <br />Since to obtain thee nothing will be stead, <br />I have a med'cine that shall cure my love, <br />The powder of her heart dried, when she is dead, <br />That gold nor honor ne'er had power to move, <br />Mixt with her tears, that ne'er her true-love crost <br />Nor at fifteen ne'er long'd to be a bride, <br />Boil'd with her sighs in giving up the ghost, <br />That for her late deceased husband died; <br />Into the same then let a woman breathe, <br />That, being chid, did never word reply, <br />With one thrice-married's prayers, that did bequeath <br />A legacy to stale virginity. <br />If this receipt have not the power to win me, <br />Little I'll say, but think the Devil's in me.<br /><br />Michael Drayton<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-xv-since-to-obtain-thee/
