Excerpt from The Works of the English Poets, From Chaucer to Cowper, Vol. 2 of 21: Including the Series Edited, With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical; Gower, Skelton, Howard, Wyat, Gascoigne, Turbervile The Lovers sorrowful State maketh him write sorrowful] Songs, but (souche) his Love may may change the same. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.