Scillaes Metamorphosis: Enterlaced with the vnfortunate loue of Glaucus VVhereunto is annexed the delectable discourse of the discontented Satyre: with sundrie other most absolute Poems and Sonnets. Contayning the detestable tyrannie of Disdaine, and Comicall triumph of Constancie: Verie fit for young Courtiers to peruse, and coy Dames to remember. By Thomas Lodge |
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[I vow but with some griefe henceforth to shunne the place]
I vow but with some griefe henceforth to shunne the place,Where beautie casts her scortching lookes to feed me with disgrace.
And since I was so fond to build on such amolde,
As euery waue of vaine conceit the substance may vnfolde;
I will repent with teares the errors of my mind,
And leaue to tie my thoghts to like of wanton womankind.
Whose wayward wiles I spie how full of sleights they be,
The heart delights in others choise, the hand yet faunes on me,
And faine she would forsake, yet followes if I shunne,
And with her tung repents the time that ere the fact was done.
And yet she will be thought as constant as the best;
Yet scornes the mā that beareth faith & courage in his crest.
Whom if she list to knowe, his colour sable is;
A mournful colour meete for those whose eyes haue gaz'd amis:
His colour pale for woe, his courage all forlorne;
His hart confirm'd to shun the sex that holds his faith in scorne.
Willing all men to learne, least they be forst to proue,
That women alter with the wind, and haue no hold in loue.
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