When Cytherea, all in love forlorn, A brook where Adon used to cool his spleen: brim : He, spying her, bounced in, whereas he stood: 'O Jove,' quoth she, 'why was not I a flood!' VII Fair is my love, but not so fair as fickle, A lily pale, with damask dye to grace her, Her lips to mine how often hath she joined, ΤΟ ΤΟ She burn'd with love, as straw with fire flameth; Was this a lover, or a lecher whether? Bad in the best, though excellent in neither. vi. 12. wistly, attentively. vii. Possibly Shakespeare's. VIII If music and sweet poetry agree, As they must needs, the sister and the brother, Thou lovest to hear the sweet melodious sound One god is god of both, as poets feign; One knight loves both, and both in thee remain. IX Fair was the morn when the fair queen of love, Paler for sorrow than her milk-white dove, viii. Probably by Richard Barnfield. It had already appeared in his Poems in Divers Humors, 1598. 5. Dowland; John Dowland, lutenist to the King of Denmark, who set many Elizabethan songs to music, and with Alfonso Ferrabosco furnished the music for several of Ben Jonson's Masques. His Song - Books, issued in 1597, 1600, and 1603, 5 ΤΟ furnished much material to Mr. Bullen's well-known selections (Lyrics from Elizabethan SongBooks). 8. conceit, imagination. 14. One knight loves both. Probably Sir George Carey, K.G., to whom Dowland dedicated his first book of airs (1597). His wife, daughter of Sir John Spencer of Althorpe, was a great friend of Spenser. L. Here in these brakes deep-wounded with a boar, X Sweet rose, fair flower, untimely pluck'd, soon vaded, I weep for thee, and yet no cause I have; O yes, dear friend, I pardon crave of thee, XI Venus, with young Adonis sitting by her She told the youngling how god Mars did try her, 'Even thus,' quoth she, 'the warlike god embraced And then she clipp'd Adonis in her arms; 'Even thus,' quoth she, 'the warlike god unlaced me,' As if the boy should use like loving charms; x. Probably not Shakespeare's. 1. vaded, faded; a Southern provincialism which recurs in xiii. xi. This had appeared, with considerable variations, in Bartholomew Griffin's Fidessa more Chaste than Kinde a sequence of sixty-two sonnets), 1596; it is probably his work. 'Even thus,' quoth she, 'he seized on my lips,' And would not take her meaning nor her pleasure. XII Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Age, I do abhor thee; youth, I do adore thee; O, my love, my love is young ! Age, I do defy thee: O, sweet shepherd, hie thee, XIII Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, ΤΟ ΤΟ ΤΟ So beauty blemish'd once's for ever lost, In spite of physic, painting, pain and cost. 13. at this bay, in my power. but not very like him. xii. Worthy of Shakespeare, xiii. Probably by the author of x. Good night, good rest. XIV Ah, neither be my share: She bade good night that kept my rest away; And daff'd me to a cabin hang'd with care, To descant on the doubts of my decay. 'Farewell,' quoth she, 'and come again tomorrow: ' Fare well I could not, for I supp'd with sorrow. Yet at my parting sweetly did she smile, XV Lord, how mine eyes throw gazes to the east! While Philomela sits and sings, I sit and mark, For she doth welcome daylight with her ditty, sorrow; For why, she sigh'd and bade me come to-morrow. xiv. xv. Probably not Shakespeare's. xiv. 3. daff'd me, sent me away. 12. As, which. XV. 2. charge, accuse. 9. pack'd, gone. ΤΟ 5 ΤΟ |