Mediocritie in Love Rejected
Morten Lauridsen, Thomas Carew
Give me more love or more disdain;
The torrid, or the frozen zone
Bring equal ease unto my pain;
The temperate affords me none;
Either extreme, of love, or hate
Is sweeter than a calm estate
Give me a storm; if it be love
Like Danae in that golden show'r
I swim in pleasure; if it prove
Disdain, that torrent will devour
My vulture-hopes; and he's possess'd
Of heaven, that's but from hell releas'd
Then crown my joys, or cure my pain;
Give me more love, or more disdain