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The louer vnhappy biddeth happy louers reioice in Maie, while he waileth that moneth to him most vnlucky.

Ye that in loue finde luck and swete abundance,
And lyue in lust of ioyfull iolitie,
Aryse for shame, do way your sluggardy:
Arise I say, do May some obseruance:
Let me in bed lye, dreamyng of mischance.
Let me remember my missehappes vnhappy,
That me betide in May most commonly:
As one whom loue list little to aduance.
Stephan said true, that my natiuitie
Mischanced was with the ruler of May.
He gest (I proue) of that the veritie.
In May my wealth, and eke my wittes, I say,
Haue stand so oft in such perplexitie.
Ioye: let me dreame of your felicitie.