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THE HUMORIST; SONG by THOMAS FLATMAN

First Line: GOOD FAITH! I NEVER WAS BUT ONCE SO MAD
Last Line: OR I'LL BE AS INDIFFERENT AS SHE.
Subject(s): LOVE - UNREQUITED;
I.

GOOD faith! I never was but once so mad
To dote upon an idle woman's face,
And then, alas! my fortune was so bad
To see another chosen in my place;
And yet I courted her, I'm very sure,
With love as true as his was, and as pure.

II.

But if I ever be so fond again
To undertake the second part of love,
To reassume that most unmanlike pain,
Or after shipwreck do the ocean prove;
My mistress must be gentle, kind, and free,
Or I'll be as indifferent as she.



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