Quote#Heart
Since first I saw your face I resolved to honour and renown ye
Quote byThomas Ford · 1580–1648
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "Since first I saw your face", st. 1, in Music of Sundry Kinds (1607).
English (original)
Since first I saw your face I resolved to honour and renown ye, If now I be disdained I wish my heart had never known ye. What? I that loved and you that liked shall we begin to wrangle? No, no no, my heart is fast, and cannot disentangle.
— Thomas Ford
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