The Works of William Fowler Secretary to Queen Anne, Wife of James VI. Edited with introduction, appendix, notes and glossary by Henry W. Meikle |
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X. [If tyme might cause me tyre.]
If tyme might cause me tyre,
Or reason wreste my will,
Or if my hote desyre
Might coole throughe carefull skill,
Then would these woes distill
Out of my troubled breist,
And loue with pleasant ill
No more should me molest.
But since my will dothe reste
In others wills then myne,
My will is well addrest
To serue that Sainct devyne.
Or reason wreste my will,
Or if my hote desyre
Might coole throughe carefull skill,
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Out of my troubled breist,
And loue with pleasant ill
No more should me molest.
But since my will dothe reste
In others wills then myne,
My will is well addrest
To serue that Sainct devyne.
And since my will dothe will
to followe my desyre,
Let tyme be tyming still,
No tyme shall me retyre
Till tyme that I aspyre
Vnto my hoped gaine;
That tyme sall paye the hyre
Of all my passed paine.
For who will not sustaine
A little tyme of toyle,
he neuer shall obtaine
In love the pleasant spoyle.
to followe my desyre,
Let tyme be tyming still,
No tyme shall me retyre
Till tyme that I aspyre
Vnto my hoped gaine;
That tyme sall paye the hyre
Of all my passed paine.
For who will not sustaine
A little tyme of toyle,
he neuer shall obtaine
In love the pleasant spoyle.
If solace make me singe,
Or cares doe cause me crye,
Or if dispayre me stinge,
Or hope me hoyse on hye,
If hote desyre me frye,
Or coold releive my smarte,
With bothe content am I,
And pleased in eche part.
No tyme shall change my harte;
My will is in your powers;
What euer me astarte,
my harte is onely yours.
Or cares doe cause me crye,
Or if dispayre me stinge,
Or hope me hoyse on hye,
If hote desyre me frye,
Or coold releive my smarte,
With bothe content am I,
And pleased in eche part.
No tyme shall change my harte;
My will is in your powers;
What euer me astarte,
my harte is onely yours.
Finis.
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