THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM (2)
| II. Two loves I have, of comfort and despair, That like two spirits do suggest me still； My better angel is a man right fair, My worser spirit a woman colour'd ill. To win me soon to hell, my female evil Tempteth my better angel from my side, And would corrupt my saint to be a devil, Wooing his purity with her fair pride. And whether that my angel be turn'd fiend, Suspect I may, yet not directly tell： For being both to me, both to each friend, I guess one angel in another's hell： The truth I shall not know, but live in doubt, Till my bad angel fire my good one out. |
