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[The authours of subiections]
The Nymphes.
The
authours of subiections
Fortune and Loue, and of most peeuish fashions,
Aboue the moone affections
Doe place, and hard reiections,
And in the same extremest paines and passions.
Fortune and Loue, and of most peeuish fashions,
Aboue the moone affections
Doe place, and hard reiections,
And in the same extremest paines and passions.
The Shepherdes.
Lesse may he vaunt and boast
For ioy, whom Loue did neuer yet molest,
Then he, that loueth most,
And fauours euer lost,
Since they that suffer more are euer best.
For ioy, whom Loue did neuer yet molest,
Then he, that loueth most,
And fauours euer lost,
Since they that suffer more are euer best.
The Nymphes.
If Loues extremes releeue you,
And did not gainsay reason, as we view them,
Perhaps we would beleeue you:
But seeing how they greeue you,
Happy are we that can so well eschew them.
And did not gainsay reason, as we view them,
Perhaps we would beleeue you:
But seeing how they greeue you,
Happy are we that can so well eschew them.
The Shepherdes.
The hardest things the stoute
And valiant persons euer take in hand:
And that of greatest doubt
Braue courage brings about,
For t'is no honour small things to withstande.
And valiant persons euer take in hand:
And that of greatest doubt
Braue courage brings about,
For t'is no honour small things to withstande.
The Nymphes.
The Louer well doth see,
To fight it out, it is not Loues intent
With magnanimitie:
In torments he must be
Of those, that suffring them are most content.
To fight it out, it is not Loues intent
With magnanimitie:
In torments he must be
Of those, that suffring them are most content.
The Shepherdes.
If any ioy we sought
By any ill of Loue which we obtaine,
Ill cannot be the thought
Vnto the passion brought:
But he's more happy that endures more paine.
By any ill of Loue which we obtaine,
Ill cannot be the thought
Vnto the passion brought:
But he's more happy that endures more paine.
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The best estate and fare,
Where he doth see himselfe that loueth best,
Brings nothing els but care:
And yet doth neuer spare
With flames to burne the dame and seruants brest:
And he that's fauour'd most,
Is changed in the twinkling of an eie:
For with disfauours tost,
And in obliuion lost,
It kils his hart and makes his ioyes to die.
The Shepherdes.
To leese a good estate
By falling from it, is a greefe and paine:
Blamelesse is Loue, but fate
It is, and Fortunes hate,
That no exception makes from his disdaine:
By falling from it, is a greefe and paine:
Blamelesse is Loue, but fate
It is, and Fortunes hate,
That no exception makes from his disdaine:
Vniust and far vnfit
Is death, if Loue doth say that we shall liue,
If death it promis'd yet,
No fault he doth commit:
For in the ende his promise he doth giue.
Is death, if Loue doth say that we shall liue,
If death it promis'd yet,
No fault he doth commit:
For in the ende his promise he doth giue.
The Nymphes.
Fierce Loue they doe excuse,
That finde themselues entangled with his fetter:
And blame those that refuse
Him, but of these to chuse
The blamed mans estate is far the better.
That finde themselues entangled with his fetter:
And blame those that refuse
Him, but of these to chuse
The blamed mans estate is far the better.
The Shepherdes.
Faire Nymphes, it is denied
The free and bond with one toong to debate,
Liue men and those that died,
The loued, and defied,
All speake according to their owne estate.
The free and bond with one toong to debate,
Liue men and those that died,
The loued, and defied,
All speake according to their owne estate.
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