Print in your heart some parcel of my tene,1 51 DESCRIPTION OF SPRING, WHEREIN EVERYTHING RENEWS, SAVE ONLY THE LOVER. 2 THE SOote season, that bud and bloom forth brings, The turtle to her make3 hath told her tale: DESCRIPTION OF THE RESTLESS STATE OF A LOVER. เ 1 WHEN youth had led me half the race That Cupid's scourge had made me run, I looked back to mete the place From whence my weary course begun. Tene: sorrow. ་ Soote :' sweet.- Make: ' mate.- Flete: float. -''Smale:' small.—Mings:' mingles. - Bale:' destruction. 2 And then I saw how my desire 3 For when in sighs I spent the day, And could not cloak my grief with game,1 The boiling smoke did still bewray The present heat of secret flame. 4 And when salt tears do bain2 my breast, Where Love his pleasant trains hath sown, Her beauty hath the fruits oppress'd, Ere that the buds were sprung and blown. 5 And when mine eyen did still pursue The flying chase of their request, Their greedy looks did oft renew The hidden wound within my breast. 6 When every look these cheeks might stain, 7 But all too late Love learneth me 8 And now the covert breast I claim, Game:' cheerfulness.- Bain: bathe. DESCRIPTION OF THE FICKLE AFFECTIONS, PANGS, AND SLIGHTS OF LOVE. SUCH wayward ways hath Love, that most part in discord Our wills do stand, whereby our hearts but seldom do accord. Deceit is his delight, and to beguile and mock The simple hearts, which he doth strike with froward, diverse stroke. He causeth th' one to rage with golden burning dart; hell; 10 And me withholds where I am call'd and offer'd place, So by these means I know how soon a heart may turn From war to peace, from truce to strife, and so again return. I know how to content myself in others' lust; Of little stuff unto myself to weave a web of trust; appear. I know how that the blood forsakes the face for dread, And how by shame it stains again the cheeks with flaming red. 20 Chere:' countenance. I know under the green, the serpent how he lurks ; 23 To languish without ache, sickless for to consume, A thousand things for to devise, resolving all in fume. 30 And fear to find that I do seek. But chiefly this I know, I know in hearty sighs, and laughters of the spleen, clean. I know how to deceive myself with others' help; remove; The slipper state I know, the sudden turns from wealth; 2 The doubtful hope, the certain woe, and sure despair of health. 'Lese:' lose.-2Wealth: happiness. 50 COMPLAINT OF A LOVER THAT DEFIED LOVE, AND WAS BY LOVE AFTER THE MORE TORMENTED. WHEN Summer took in hand the Winter to assail, to quail : And when he clothed fair the earth about with green, dore. 'Abroad,' quoth my Desire, assay to set thy foot; Where thou shalt find the savour sweet; for sprung is every root; And to thy health, if thou were sick in any case, space. 10 There shalt thou hear and see all kinds of birds ywrought, Well tune their voice with warble small, as Nature hath them taught ' Thus pricked me my lust the sluggish house to leave, And for my health I thought it best such counsel to receive. So on a morrow forth, unwist of any wight, I went to prove how well it would my heavy burden light. And when I felt the air so pleasant round about, Ver: Spring.-2 Hent: brought out. 20 |