For my good will to be object, Pain, or travail; to run, or ride, Pain or pleasure now may you plant, And since so much I do desire, To be your own assuredly; OF THE PAINS AND SORROWS CAUSED BY LOVE. WHAT meaneth this! when I lie alone I toss, I turn, I sigh, I groan; My bed me seems as hard as stone: I sigh, I plain continually; The clothes that on my bed do lie, In slumbers oft for fear I quake; A mornings then when I do rise, And if perchance by me there pass, But if I sit near her by, With loud voice my heart doth cry, To ask for help no heart I have; My tongue doth fail what I should crave; What means this? Thus have I passed many a year, And many a day, though nought appear, What means this? THE LOVER RECOUNTETH THE VARIABLE FANCY OF HIS FICKLE MISTRESS. Is it possible? That so high debate, So sharp, so sore, and of such rate, Should end so soon, and was begun so late. Is it possible? So cruel intent, So hasty heat, and so soon spent, From love to hate, and thence for to relent, Is it possible? Is it possible? That any may find, Within one heart so diverse mind, To change or turn as weather and wind, Is it possible? Is it possible? To spy it in an eye, That turns as oft as chance or die, The truth whereof can any try; Is it possible? It is possible, For to turn so oft; To bring that low'st that was most aloft; It is possible! All is possible! Whoso list believe, Trust therefore first and after preve; As men wed ladies by license and leave; All is possible! THE ABUSED LOVER. BEWAILS THE TIME THAT EVER HIS EYE BEHELD HER TO WHOM HE HAD GIVEN HIS FAITHFUL HEART. ALAS! poor man, what hap have I, Never to live in quiet rest. No wonder is though I complain; Do what I can to ease thy smart, A careful carcass full of pain Now hast thou left to mourn for thee, Mine eye, alas! was cause of this, She that I serve all other above AN EARNEST SUIT TO HIS UNKIND MISTRESS NOT TO FORSAKE HIM. AND wilt thou leave me thus? And wilt thou leave me thus? And wilt thou leave me thus? Neither for pain nor smart: Say nay! say nay! And wilt thou leave me thus, |