Part 2 — MEDIOCRITY IN LOVE REJECTED
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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 shower, I'll swim in pleasure; if it prove Disdain, that torrent will devour My vulture-hopes; and he's possessed Of heaven, that's but from hell released.
Then crown my joys, or cure my pain: Give me more love, or more disdain.
Thomas Carew [1598?-1639?]