A Courtlie controuersie of Cupids Cautels Conteyning fiue Tragicall Histories, very pithie, pleasant, pitiful, and profitable: Discoursed uppon wyth Argumentes of Loue, by three Gentlemen and two Gentlewomen, entermedled with diuers delicate Sonets and Rithmes, exceeding delightfull to refresh the yrkesomnesse of tedious tyme. Translated out of French as neare as our English phrase will permit, by H. VV. Gentleman [i.e. Henry Wotton] |
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The seconde dayes pastime.
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[In shrowde of shadie verdant vine]
In shrowde of shadie verdant vine,in wreathed braunches i
quaffing out cuppes of pleasaunt wine,
with upright face do lye:
Approche my prettie dayntie trull,
a while let vs two kisse and cull.
For as the tickell wheele doth glide,
and force with beautie wans away:
so youth without returne doth slide,
and wormes vpon our fleshe shall pray.
[VVhy doo the Lillies fade away]
VVhy doo the Lillies fade away,and pleasant sentes resigne my graue:
Let rather violets freshe and gay,
my tender heare enuiron braue.
Bring heere to me my loue so faire,
to quallifie my pining care,
So as before the day when I
must leade the daunce among the dead,
All sorrowes from my sight may flye,
and ioye possesse my troubled head.
[Let vs conioyne in nuptiall bedde]
Let vs conioyne in nuptiall bedde,Citheria cladde in Roses fyne,
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and fraught our heades with drowsie wine:
O pleasaunt deawe of flowers Queene,
O deawe the fauour of the spring,
Deawe deare delight of heauenly eyen,
deawe crowning loue in euery thing.
VVhen Bacchus giues the graces fayre
his hande, and leades their daunces braue,
My crest shall be of Roses rare,
my head eke full of wine of graue:
Then will I choose the fayrest out,
and leade my selfe the daunce about.
[VVhat thing, the elder that it growes]
VVhat thing, the elder that it growes,hath greater force and might?
And stronger eke lesse malice showes,
to harme the worldly wight?
And most assayled most doth byte,
Yet natures freende and loues delite?
[VVhat can a speedie course maintaine]
VVhat can a speedie course maintaine,at all not hauing any feate,
Or else still cackling noyses faine,
without a toung for vttraunce meete,
Yet still in earth and ayer prest,
to spoyle it selfe for euery guest.
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