As rare to heare as seldome to be seene, <br />It cannot be nor never yet hathe bene <br />That fire should burne with perfecte heate and flame <br />Without some matter for to yealde the same. <br /> <br /> <br />A straunger case yet true by profe I knowe <br />A man in joy that livethe still in woe: <br />A harder happ who hathe his love at lyste <br />Yet lives in love as he all love had miste: <br /> <br /> <br />Whoe hathe enougehe, yet thinkes he lives wthout, <br />Lackinge no love yet still he standes in doubte. <br />What discontente to live in suche desyre, <br />To have his will yet ever to requyre. <br /> <br /> <br />Mr. Dier.<br /><br />Sir Edward Dyer<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/love-contradictions/
