"If Love’s a Sweet Passion, why does it torment? If a Bitter, oh tell me whence comes my..."

“If Love’s a Sweet Passion, why does it torment?

If a Bitter, oh tell me whence comes my content?

Since I suffer with pleasure, why should I complain,

Or grieve at my Fate, when I know ‘tis in vain?

Yet so pleasing the Pain, so soft is the Dart,

That at once it both wounds me, and tickles my Heart.”



- The Fairy Queen, Henry Purcell

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