HE PROFESSETH INDIFFERENCE. HATE whom ye list, for I care not; But even as one that recks not, But love whom ye list, for I care not. HE REJOICETH THAT HE HAD BROKEN THE SNARES OF LOVE. TANGLED I was in Love's snare, Oppressed with pain, torment with care; Clean in despair by cruelty; But ha ha ha! full well is me, The woful days so full of pain, To write them all it will not be ; Every thing that fair doth shew, Too great desire was my guide, But ha! ha! ha! full well is me, For I am now at liberty. With feigned words, which were but wind, To long delays I was assign'd; Her wily looks my wits did blind; Thus as she would I did agree. Was never bird tangled in lime THE LOVER PRAYETH THAT HIS LADY'S HEART MIGHT BE ENFLAMED WITH EQUAL AFFECTION. Love doth again Put me to pain, And yet all is but lost. And am certain, Of all misliked most. Both heat and cold Doth so me hold, And comber so my mind; Speak and behold, It driveth me still behind. My wits be past, My life doth waste, My comfort is exiled; And I in haste, Am like to taste How love hath me beguiled. Unless that right May in her sight Obtain pity and grace; Why should a wight Have beauty bright, If mercy have no place. Yet I, alas! Am in such case; That back I cannot go ; But still forth trace A patient pace, And suffer secret woe. For with the wind My fired mind Doth still inflame; And she unkind That did me bind, Doth turn it all to game. Yet can no pain Make me refrain, Nor here and there to range; And better fee Than she gave me, She shall of me attain; For whereas she Shewed cruelty, She shall my heart obtain. THE DISDAINFUL LADY REFUSING TO HEAR Her Lover's suit, he resolvETH TO FORSAKE HER. Now all of change Must be my song, And from my bond now must I break ; Since she so strange, Unto my wrong, Doth stop her ears, to hear me speak. Yet none doth know So well as she, My grief, which can have no restraint; That fain would follow, Now needs must flee, For fault of ear unto my plaint. I am not he By false assays, Nor feigned faith can bear in hand; Though most I see That such always Are best for to be understand. VOL. II. L |