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Thread #83514   Message #1535518
Posted By: Paul Burke
05-Aug-05 - 06:57 AM
Thread Name: Inordinate Love- 15th Century poem
Subject: Inordinate Love- 15th Century poem
I've modernised the spelling a bit.

I shall say what inordinate love is:
The furiosity and frenzy of mind,
An inextinguishable burning lacking bliss,
A great hunger, insatiable to find,
A dulcet ill, an evil sweetness blind,
A right wonderful, sugared, sweet error,
Labour without rest, contrary to kind,
And without peace to have great labour.