XXVII.
[Vnhappy]
In the first sixe verses of this Passion, the Author hath imitated
perfectly sixe verses in an Ode of Ronsard, which beginneth
thus:
Celui qui n'ayme est malheureux,
En son 2. liure du Bocage.
Et malheureux est l'amoureux,
Mais la misere, &c?
And in the last staffe of this Passion also he commeth very
neere to the sense, which Ronsard vseth in an other place,
where he writeth to his Mistresse in this maner:
En veus tu baiser Pluton
La bas, apres che Caron
T'aura mise en sa nacelle?
Vnhappy
Hii tres versus a Ronsardo describuntur ex Anacreonto Græco.
is the wight, thats voide of Loue,
And yet vnhappie he, whom Loue torments,
But greatest griefe that man is forc't to proue,
Whose haughtie Loue not for his loue relents,
But hoysing vp her sayle of prowd disdaine,
For seruice done makes no returne of gaine.
By this all you, which knowe my tickle state,
May giue deserued blame to whom I serue,
And say, that Loue hath miserie to mate,
Since labour breedes but losse, and letts me sterue:
For I am he which liues a lasting thrall
To her, whose heart affords no grace at all.
She hopes (perchance) to liue and flourish still,
Or els, when Charons boate hath felt her peaze,
By louing lookes to conquer Plutoes will;
But all in vaine: t'is not Proserpin's ease:
She neuer will permit, that any one
Shall ioy his Loue, but she her selfe alone.
