Newe Sonets and pretie Pamphlets. Written by Thomas Howell. Newly augmented, corrected and amended |
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[In whiche time Earbes and trees, that Winters winde did weare]
[OMITTED] In whiche time Earbes and trees, that Winters winde did weare,Enforce them selues to bud and growe some pleasant fruicte to beare.
The litle Byrde that reason wants, doth then with chirping cheare,
From twig to twig, and bushe to bushe, greet oft his lotted feare:
The flotinge Fish in sturdie streames, that trauels day and night,
Doth eke vnto their fancied feares repeare with all their might,
The weake and wreatched wormes forgetteth not this day,
Whom wee may finde aboute this time faste coplide by the way:
As nature hath decreede all these by course of kinde,
In thinges that reasons rule doth want, right so hath man asingde,
For witnesse of the same in this apointed time,
That euery man and woman eke shall haue a Ualentine,
In signe of that hir force whiche no wight can subdew,
Lo this the only cause I say, that all thinges doth renew:
Lo this the cause also, why Fortunes lots be had,
Whose hoped hap and haplesse hope, doth make both wo and glad.
But I aboue the reast, may Fortune highly prayse,
Who hath geuen me the fearest Dame, that liues in these our daies:
Suche one I say whom Nature hath, with Uertue so I deckte,
That none there is or shall haue powre, hir name once to deteckte:
Euen suche a one whom I as Fortune hath asignde,
Will alwaies be at hir commaunds, till death shall do his kinde.
Finis.
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