To Lucasta, Going to the Warres

"To Lucasta, Going to the Warres" is a 1649 poem by Richard Lovelace. It was published in the collection Lucasta by Lovelace of that year. The initial poems were addressed to Lucasta, not clearly identified with any real-life woman, under the titles "Going beyond the Seas" and "Going to the Warres", on a chivalrous note.[1]

Text

Tell me not, (sweet,) I am unkinde,
  That from the nunnerie
Of thy chaste breast and quiet minde
  To warre and armes I flie.

True: a new Mistresse now I chase,
  The first foe in the field;
And with a stronger faith imbrace
  A sword, a horse, a shield.

Yet this inconstancy is such,
  As you too shall adore;
I could not love thee, dear, so much,
  Lov'd I not Honour more.[2]

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gollark: They don't get to pick anything.
gollark: Which is what my pronouny profile says.
gollark: They don't either, unless you want to call me the supreme overlord of all, master of all space and time, destroyer of worlds, devourer of souls/the supreme overlord of all, master of all space and time, destroyer of worlds, devourer of souls/the supreme overlord of all, master of all space and time, destroyer of worlds, devourer of souls's/the supreme overlord of all, master of all space and time, destroyer of worlds, devourer of souls's/the supreme overlord of all, master of all space and time, destroyer of worlds, devourer of souls.
gollark: Nope. "They" is pretty much "standard pronoun for everyone".

See also

Notes
  1. Anselment, Raymond A. "Lovelace, Richard". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/17056. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. Lovelace, Richard (1921). Lucasta; poems with an introductory note by William Lyon Phelps. 1. Chicago: Caxton Club. p. 29.
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