Q 147

MY love is as a fever longing still,
For that which longer nurseth the disease,
Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,
Th' uncertain sickly appetite to please:
My reason the Physician to my love,
Angry that his prescriptions are not kept
Hath left me, and I desperate now approve,
Desire is death, which Physic did except.

Past cure I am, now Reason is past care,
And frantic mad with ever-more unrest,
My thoughts and my discourse as madmen's are,
At random from the truth vainly express'd.

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.