Diana of George of Montemayor Translated out of Spanish into English by Bartholomew Yong |
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[Shepherds giue eare and now be still]
Shepherds
giue eare and now be still
Vnto my passions, and their cause,
And what they be?
Since that with such an earnest will,
And such great signes of friendships lawes
You aske it me.
Vnto my passions, and their cause,
And what they be?
Since that with such an earnest will,
And such great signes of friendships lawes
You aske it me.
It is not long, since I was whole,
Nor since I did in euery part
Sreewill resigne:
It is not long, since in my sole
Possession I did knowe my hart,
And to be mine.
Nor since I did in euery part
Sreewill resigne:
It is not long, since in my sole
Possession I did knowe my hart,
And to be mine.
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It is not long, since euen and morrow
All pleasure that my hart could finde,
Was in my power:
It is not long, since greefe and sorrow
My louing hart began to binde,
And to deuoure.
All pleasure that my hart could finde,
Was in my power:
It is not long, since greefe and sorrow
My louing hart began to binde,
And to deuoure.
It is not long, since companie
I did esteeme, a ioy indeede
Still to frequent:
Nor long, since solitarily
I liu'd, and that this life did breede
My sole content.
I did esteeme, a ioy indeede
Still to frequent:
Nor long, since solitarily
I liu'd, and that this life did breede
My sole content.
Desirous I (wretched) to see
But thinking not to see so much
As then I sawe:
Loue made me knowe in what degree
His valour and braue force did touch
Me with his lawe.
But thinking not to see so much
As then I sawe:
Loue made me knowe in what degree
His valour and braue force did touch
Me with his lawe.
First he did put no more nor lesse
Into my hart then he did view
That there did want:
But when my brest in such excesse
Of liuely flames to burne I knew,
Then were so scant.
Into my hart then he did view
That there did want:
But when my brest in such excesse
Of liuely flames to burne I knew,
Then were so scant.
My ioies, that now did so abate
(My selfe estranged euery way
From former rest)
That I did knowe, that my estate
And that my life was euery day
In deathes arrest.
(My selfe estranged euery way
From former rest)
That I did knowe, that my estate
And that my life was euery day
In deathes arrest.
I put my hand into my side,
To see what was the cause of this
Vnwonted vaine,
Where I did feele, that torments hied
By endlesse death to preiudice
My life vvith paine.
To see what was the cause of this
Vnwonted vaine,
Where I did feele, that torments hied
By endlesse death to preiudice
My life vvith paine.
Bicause I savve, that there did vvant
My hart, wherein I did delight
(My deerest hart)
And he that did the same supplant,
No iurisdiction had of right
To play that part.
My hart, wherein I did delight
(My deerest hart)
And he that did the same supplant,
No iurisdiction had of right
To play that part.
The iudge, and robber, that remaine
Within my soule, their cause to trie
Are there all one:
And so the giuer of the paine,
And he that is condemn'd to die,
Or I, or none.
Within my soule, their cause to trie
Are there all one:
And so the giuer of the paine,
And he that is condemn'd to die,
Or I, or none.
To die I care not any way,
Though without why, to die I greeue,
As I doe see:
But for bicause I heard her say,
None die for loue, for I beleeue
None such there bee.
Though without why, to die I greeue,
As I doe see:
But for bicause I heard her say,
None die for loue, for I beleeue
None such there bee.
Then this thou shalt beleeue by mee
Too late, and without remedie
As did (in breefe)
Anaxarete, and thou shalt see,
The little she did satisfie
With after greefe.
Too late, and without remedie
As did (in breefe)
Anaxarete, and thou shalt see,
The little she did satisfie
With after greefe.
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