An Ovld Facioned Love Or a loue of the Ould facion. By I. T. gent |
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THE ANSWER OF PHILLIS TO AMINTAS BY THE TRANSLATOR. |
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THE ANSWER OF PHILLIS TO AMINTAS BY THE TRANSLATOR.
To satisfie hir friend thus Phillis writeth,
Scarce well aduisde to whom or what she doth
For trembling hand whilst fearful thought inditeth
Do tell me oft, men speake not alwaies sooth.
And that too many seme as they where iust,
In whom our trialles find but little trust.
Scarce well aduisde to whom or what she doth
For trembling hand whilst fearful thought inditeth
Do tell me oft, men speake not alwaies sooth.
And that too many seme as they where iust,
In whom our trialles find but little trust.
Yea I haue heard how much they vse to glorie:
(As if it were some newes of good import)
Of vs to tell an ouer louing storie,
Where with they make themselues & others sport
But in what case is that poore seelie maid?
That by her owne good nature is betraid.
(As if it were some newes of good import)
Of vs to tell an ouer louing storie,
Where with they make themselues & others sport
But in what case is that poore seelie maid?
That by her owne good nature is betraid.
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Now twise too kind (I must confesse) it is,
For vs to write or shew our bad inuentions;
The lines we send proue maps of our amisse,
Wherein you men false measure our intention.
And though of loue, the verses haue no sauour,
Yet are they deemde too prodigall a fauour.
For vs to write or shew our bad inuentions;
The lines we send proue maps of our amisse,
Wherein you men false measure our intention.
And though of loue, the verses haue no sauour,
Yet are they deemde too prodigall a fauour.
We vergins on an open stage are set:
Where many eies examine euerie deede:
Where slaunder hides in euery bush a net
To warne vs in our waies to take good heed.
Then may we hope that lines wil ought conceale?
VVhich like bad seruants all they know reueale.
Where many eies examine euerie deede:
Where slaunder hides in euery bush a net
To warne vs in our waies to take good heed.
Then may we hope that lines wil ought conceale?
VVhich like bad seruants all they know reueale.
The inside of our hartes must not be seene:
Wee must lock vp the secrets of the mind,
And though Amintas euer true hath beene,
Yet Phillis must not shew hir selfe too kind.
With these perswasions did I hould my hand,
Till your intreties gaue a counter-mand.
Wee must lock vp the secrets of the mind,
And though Amintas euer true hath beene,
Yet Phillis must not shew hir selfe too kind.
With these perswasions did I hould my hand,
Till your intreties gaue a counter-mand.
Where with the loue which once I did conceiue,
(Before your sight to get what I would keepe)
Began a new impression to receiue
In hope to charme your fond desires asleepe.
For (truth to speake) before your sute began
I thought Amintas was an honest man.
(Before your sight to get what I would keepe)
Began a new impression to receiue
In hope to charme your fond desires asleepe.
For (truth to speake) before your sute began
I thought Amintas was an honest man.
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Yet such as chastly meane to liue and die,
Must shun occasions, tempting their intent,
And hate such sutors as in waite do lie
To make our thoughts become incontinent.
My maidenhood was promisd to my graue:
An others right Amintas may not haue.
Must shun occasions, tempting their intent,
And hate such sutors as in waite do lie
To make our thoughts become incontinent.
My maidenhood was promisd to my graue:
An others right Amintas may not haue.
And I did tell ould Mopsus when he brought,
(Too pander like) the verses first you sent,
That since to wrack my chastitie you sought,
I would reuoke the friendship earst I ment:
T'was wisely done to send him on that arrant,
Since of his councell you had little warrant.
(Too pander like) the verses first you sent,
That since to wrack my chastitie you sought,
I would reuoke the friendship earst I ment:
T'was wisely done to send him on that arrant,
Since of his councell you had little warrant.
Now if I should (which nere is like to bee)
Forsake the sweetnes of this single life,
In truth, I rather had be match't with thee,
Then otherwise become a Prince his wife.
Yet do not mend your hope with this I saie
For trust me Phillis neither will nor maie.
Forsake the sweetnes of this single life,
In truth, I rather had be match't with thee,
Then otherwise become a Prince his wife.
Yet do not mend your hope with this I saie
For trust me Phillis neither will nor maie.
For who doe marke the daungers that arise,
And see the paines and cares the wedded venter:
But will preuent (at least if they be wise)
That they such troubles shall not rashlie enter.
But graūt som maids their happines would loose
Yet can you scarcely teach vs how to choose,
And see the paines and cares the wedded venter:
But will preuent (at least if they be wise)
That they such troubles shall not rashlie enter.
But graūt som maids their happines would loose
Yet can you scarcely teach vs how to choose,
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For may we take those men whose eies do sue?
Gazing as if in vs they sought their hearts:
Or may we thinke their shamefast gestures true,
Whose signes appeere the patterns of their smarts
So wrought Ortello, yet how false was he?
And why should his succeeders truer be?
Gazing as if in vs they sought their hearts:
Or may we thinke their shamefast gestures true,
Whose signes appeere the patterns of their smarts
So wrought Ortello, yet how false was he?
And why should his succeeders truer be?
Or are they best who with their heart-sicke woes,
A spotlesse faith right solemnly will sweare:
Or such as with old begging words compose,
A bosome loue to hackney euery where.
The periurd louers looke as others do,
The last to shew their cunning only wooe.
A spotlesse faith right solemnly will sweare:
Or such as with old begging words compose,
A bosome loue to hackney euery where.
The periurd louers looke as others do,
The last to shew their cunning only wooe.
What counsell then since eares and eies may erre?
And error breedes both smart and bitter shame:
If we misgrant the sutes they do prefer,
Repentance cannot stanch our bleeding fame.
So that if signes, & words, & vowes be forceles,
Women haue cause (I thinke) to be remorceles.
And error breedes both smart and bitter shame:
If we misgrant the sutes they do prefer,
Repentance cannot stanch our bleeding fame.
So that if signes, & words, & vowes be forceles,
Women haue cause (I thinke) to be remorceles.
And since both good, and bad, their truth wil bost
(Bearing themselues as if no harme they ment),
Considering that the worst are euer most,
We must suspect the very best intent,
For deepe deceipt will speake as faire as he,
Who loueth best and fainest lou'd would be.
(Bearing themselues as if no harme they ment),
Considering that the worst are euer most,
We must suspect the very best intent,
For deepe deceipt will speake as faire as he,
Who loueth best and fainest lou'd would be.
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Now some (againe) (too fond) amongst the rest,
For present time do loue with feruent mind:
Yet when a while their loues they haue possest,
In whō some diffrence frō their thoughts they find
Perceiuing how their hopes were thē beguiled,
All former loue by them is quite exiled.
For present time do loue with feruent mind:
Yet when a while their loues they haue possest,
In whō some diffrence frō their thoughts they find
Perceiuing how their hopes were thē beguiled,
All former loue by them is quite exiled.
Then others fortunes they begin to measure,
Guessing how well some other men haue sped:
Their own is dros, the rust (they think) are treasure
And now they tell how much they were misled.
In neighbours fields the corn is better grown,
And euery thing is richer then their owne.
Guessing how well some other men haue sped:
Their own is dros, the rust (they think) are treasure
And now they tell how much they were misled.
In neighbours fields the corn is better grown,
And euery thing is richer then their owne.
From whence there doth a world of mischiefs slide
For then hath thrift his pasport to be gon:
All honesty and loue is laide aside,
Yea and those mischiefes seldome come alone.
For lothing minds are longing to be free,
And care not how so it effected be.
For then hath thrift his pasport to be gon:
All honesty and loue is laide aside,
Yea and those mischiefes seldome come alone.
For lothing minds are longing to be free,
And care not how so it effected be.
I am not angry (though I shrewdly speake),
For sin it were with loue to be displeased:
Only I seeke your vaine desires to breake,
Which yet but sparks (I hope) may be appeased.
And I dare sweare that you are none of those,
That with deceipt are practised to gloze.
For sin it were with loue to be displeased:
Only I seeke your vaine desires to breake,
Which yet but sparks (I hope) may be appeased.
And I dare sweare that you are none of those,
That with deceipt are practised to gloze.
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Yet must I prosecute my first occasion,
By all good meanes affection to subdue:
And might I so preuaile by my perswasion,
As henceforth you such sutes would not renew.
Might I (Amintas) thus those toies remoue,
Then should I thinke that Phillis you did loue.
By all good meanes affection to subdue:
And might I so preuaile by my perswasion,
As henceforth you such sutes would not renew.
Might I (Amintas) thus those toies remoue,
Then should I thinke that Phillis you did loue.
Why faine I were a man even as you do say,
And that my bewty did so far exceede:
Ist therefore strange if you should haue a nay,
Do euery sutor of his purpose speede.
That which you did demand is sought by many
But I will neither giue it you nor any.
And that my bewty did so far exceede:
Ist therefore strange if you should haue a nay,
Do euery sutor of his purpose speede.
That which you did demand is sought by many
But I will neither giue it you nor any.
And yet to you before a thousand more,
Were they as rich as Crassus in his pride:
And were Amintas more then thrice as poore,
When I may loue to him my loue is tid'e.
But til our friends conscent, we haue no power,
The couenant of that knot is none of oure.
Were they as rich as Crassus in his pride:
And were Amintas more then thrice as poore,
When I may loue to him my loue is tid'e.
But til our friends conscent, we haue no power,
The couenant of that knot is none of oure.
For as from parents we our flesh do borrow,
So must we pay the dept which kind do owe:
And you shall alwaies see the mayde haue sorrow,
Which crosse their likings doth hir selfe bestow.
Whose carefull eies all danger will espie,
When our blind fancies leade vs cleane awry.
So must we pay the dept which kind do owe:
And you shall alwaies see the mayde haue sorrow,
Which crosse their likings doth hir selfe bestow.
Whose carefull eies all danger will espie,
When our blind fancies leade vs cleane awry.
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And though my mother fauoreth you too much,
And partially to me reports your praise,
Yet what maie she do since the world is such:
As now the husband euerie action swaies,
Of whose consent there is no little doubt,
Farewell for now my wasted light goes out.
And partially to me reports your praise,
Yet what maie she do since the world is such:
As now the husband euerie action swaies,
Of whose consent there is no little doubt,
Farewell for now my wasted light goes out.
FINIS.
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