![]() | "Songes and Sonettes written by the ryght honorable
Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other" | ![]() |
Behold, Loue, thy power
Request to Cupide, for reuenge of his vnkinde loue.
Behold, Loue, thy power how she despiseth:My greuous payn how litle she regardeth,
The solemne othe, wherof she takes no cure,
Broken she hath: and yet, she bydeth sure,
Right at her ease, and litle thee she dredeth.
Weaponed thou art, and she vnarmed sitteth:
To the disdainful, all her life she leadeth:
To me spitefull, without iust cause, or measure.
Behold Loue, how proudly she triumpheth,
I am in hold, but if thee pitie meueth:
Go, bend thy bow, that stony hartes breaketh:
And with some stroke reuenge the great displeasure
Of thee, and himthat sorow doth endure,
And as his Lord thee lowly here entreateth.
![]() | "Songes and Sonettes written by the ryght honorable
Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other" | ![]() |