I PRITHEE SEND ME BACK MY HEART.

By Sir John Suckling (1609–1642).

I prithee send me back my heart,

Since I cannot have thine,

For if from yours you will not part,

Why, then, shouldst thou have mine?

Yet now I think on’t, let it lie;

To find it were in vain;

For thou’st a thief in either eye

Would steal it back again.