雙語·英美愛情詩歌選 25　千萬別戀愛

25. Never Love Unless You Can

——T. Campion

Never love unless you can

Bear with all the faults of man;

Men sometimes will jealous be,

Though but little cause they see,

And hang the head, as discontent,

And speak what straight they will repent.

Men that but one saint adore

Make a show of love to more;

Beauty must be scorned in none,

Though but truly served in one;

For what is courtship but disguise?

True hearts may have dissembling eyes.

Men when their affairs require

Must a while themselves retire,

Sometimes hunt, and sometimes hawk,

And not ever sit and talk.

If these and such like you can bear,

Then like, and love, and never fear.