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- Biographical information
- Love not me
Biographical information- Name: John Wilbye
Place and date of birth: Brome, Suffolk (England); March 7, 1574
Place and date of death: Colchester, Essex (England); September 1638 (aged 64)- Love not me
- Love not me for comely grace,
For my pleasing eye or face,
Nor for any outward part:
No, nor for a constant heart!
For these may fail or turn to ill:
Should thou and I sever.
Keep, therefore, a true woman's eye,
And love me still, but know not why!
So hast thou the same reason still
To dote upon me ever.