| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. |
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| Samuel Daniel. 1562–1619 |
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| 111. Love is a Sickness |
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| LOVE is a sickness full of woes, | |
| All remedies refusing; | |
| A plant that with most cutting grows, | |
| Most barren with best using. | |
| Why so? | 5 |
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| More we enjoy it, more it dies; | |
| If not enjoy'd, it sighing cries— | |
| Heigh ho! | |
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| Love is a torment of the mind, | |
| A tempest everlasting; | 10 |
| And Jove hath made it of a kind | |
| Not well, nor full nor fasting. | |
| Why so? | |
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| More we enjoy it, more it dies; | |
| If not enjoy'd, it sighing cries— | 15 |
| Heigh ho! | |
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