Parthenophil and Parthenophe :: :: University of Virginia Library

If neither loue, nor pittie can procure
Thy ruthlesse hart subscribe to my content:
But if thou vow that I shall still endure
This doubtfull feare which euer doth torment.
If to thine eyes thine hart can lend a fier,
Whiles could disdaine vpon them settes a locke:
To barre forth pittie which kinde harts desier,
Whiles the distrest make prayers to a rocke.
If that thine eyes send out a sunnie smile,
From vnderneath a cloudie frowne of hate:
Plaine loue with counterfeasance to beguile,
Which at thy windowes for some grace awate.
If thou thine eares can open to thy prayse,
And them with that report delighted, cherish:
And shut them, when the passionate assayes,
To pleade for pittie, then about to perish.
If thou canst cherish graces in thy cheeke,
For men to wonder at, which thee behold:
And they finde furies, when thine hart they seeke,
And yet proue such, as are extreamely cold.
Now as I finde, no thought to mans conceipt,
Then must I sweare, to womans no deceit.