The Whole Works of William Browne of Tavistock ... Now first collected and edited, with a memoir of the poet, and notes, by W. Carew Hazlitt, of the Inner Temple |
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Noone-tide the Morne had woo'd, and she gan yeeld,
When Doridon (made ready for the field)
Goes sadly forth (a wofull Shepherds Lad)
Drowned in teares, his minde with griefe yclad,
To ope his fold and let his Lamkins out,
(Full iolly flocke they seem'd, a well fleec'd rout)
Which gently walk'd before, he sadly pacing,
Both guides and followes them towards their grazing.
When from a Groue the Wood-Nymphs held full deare,
Two heauenly voyces did intreat his eare,
And did compell his longing eyes to see
What happy wight enioy'd such harmonie.
Which ioyned with fiue more, and so made seauen,
Would parallel in mirth the Spheares of heauen.
To haue a sight at first he would not presse,
For feare to interrupt such happinesse:
But kept aloofe the thicke growne shrubs among,
Yet so as he might heare this wooing Song.
F.
Fie Shepherds Swaine, why sitst thou all alone,
Whil'st other Lads are sporting on the leyes?
R.
Ioy may haue company, but Griefe hath none:
Where pleasure neuer came, sports cannot please.
F.
Yet may you please to grace our this daies sport,
Though not an actor, yet a looker on.
R.
A looker on indeede, so Swaines of sort,
Cast low, take ioy to looke whence they are thrown?
F.
Seeke ioy and finde it.
R.
Griefe doth not minde it.
BOTH.
Then both agree in one,
Sorrow doth hate
To haue a mate;
“True griefe is still alone.
F.
Sad Swaine areade, (if that a Maid may aske)
What cause so great effects of griefe hath wrought?)
R.
Alas, Loue is not hid, it weares no maske;
To view 'tis by the face conceiu'd and brought.
F.
The cause I grant: the causer is not learned:
Your speech I doe entreat about this taske.
R.
If that my heart were seene, 'twould be discerned;
And Fida's name found grauen on the caske.
F.
Hath Loue young Remond moued?
R.
'Tis Fida that is loued.
BOTH.
Although 'tis said that no men
Will with their hearts,
Or goods chiefe parts
Trust either Seas or Women.
F.
R.
When protestations faile, time may approue
Where true affection liues, where falshood dwelleth.
F.
The truest cause elects a Iudge as true:
Fie, how my sighing, my much louing telleth.
R.
Your loue is fixt in one whose heart to you
Shall be as constancy, which ne'er rebelleth.
F.
None other shall haue grace.
R.
None else in my heart place.
BOTH.
Goe Shepherds Swaines and wiue all,
For Loue and Kings
Are two like things
Admitting no Corriuall.
As when some Malefactor iudg'd to die
For his offence, his Execution nye,
Casteth his sight on states vnlike to his,
And weighs his ill by others happinesse:
So Doridon thought euery state to be
Further from him, more neere felicitie.
When Doridon (made ready for the field)
Goes sadly forth (a wofull Shepherds Lad)
Drowned in teares, his minde with griefe yclad,
To ope his fold and let his Lamkins out,
(Full iolly flocke they seem'd, a well fleec'd rout)
Which gently walk'd before, he sadly pacing,
Both guides and followes them towards their grazing.
88
Two heauenly voyces did intreat his eare,
And did compell his longing eyes to see
What happy wight enioy'd such harmonie.
Which ioyned with fiue more, and so made seauen,
Would parallel in mirth the Spheares of heauen.
To haue a sight at first he would not presse,
For feare to interrupt such happinesse:
But kept aloofe the thicke growne shrubs among,
Yet so as he might heare this wooing Song.
F.
Fie Shepherds Swaine, why sitst thou all alone,
Whil'st other Lads are sporting on the leyes?
R.
Ioy may haue company, but Griefe hath none:
Where pleasure neuer came, sports cannot please.
F.
Yet may you please to grace our this daies sport,
Though not an actor, yet a looker on.
R.
A looker on indeede, so Swaines of sort,
Cast low, take ioy to looke whence they are thrown?
F.
Seeke ioy and finde it.
R.
Griefe doth not minde it.
BOTH.
Then both agree in one,
Sorrow doth hate
To haue a mate;
“True griefe is still alone.
F.
Sad Swaine areade, (if that a Maid may aske)
What cause so great effects of griefe hath wrought?)
R.
Alas, Loue is not hid, it weares no maske;
To view 'tis by the face conceiu'd and brought.
F.
The cause I grant: the causer is not learned:
Your speech I doe entreat about this taske.
R.
If that my heart were seene, 'twould be discerned;
And Fida's name found grauen on the caske.
89
Hath Loue young Remond moued?
R.
'Tis Fida that is loued.
BOTH.
Although 'tis said that no men
Will with their hearts,
Or goods chiefe parts
Trust either Seas or Women.
F.
How may a Maiden be assur'd of loue,
Since falshood late in euerie Swaine excelleth?
Since falshood late in euerie Swaine excelleth?
R.
When protestations faile, time may approue
Where true affection liues, where falshood dwelleth.
F.
The truest cause elects a Iudge as true:
Fie, how my sighing, my much louing telleth.
R.
Your loue is fixt in one whose heart to you
Shall be as constancy, which ne'er rebelleth.
F.
None other shall haue grace.
R.
None else in my heart place.
BOTH.
Goe Shepherds Swaines and wiue all,
For Loue and Kings
Are two like things
Admitting no Corriuall.
As when some Malefactor iudg'd to die
For his offence, his Execution nye,
Casteth his sight on states vnlike to his,
And weighs his ill by others happinesse:
So Doridon thought euery state to be
Further from him, more neere felicitie.
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