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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[Oh drowsie night, the dame of dreadefull dreames] |
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[Oh drowsie night, the dame of dreadefull dreames]
Oh drowsie night, the dame of dreadefull dreames,
The carefull nurse of Venus waywarde boye,
Thoughe death presented be in thine extreames,
And feare dothe shrowde in shade of thine anoye,
Yet I (alas) like more thine irkesome sight,
Than to beholde the ioyes of Phebus light.
The carefull nurse of Venus waywarde boye,
Thoughe death presented be in thine extreames,
And feare dothe shrowde in shade of thine anoye,
Yet I (alas) like more thine irkesome sight,
Than to beholde the ioyes of Phebus light.
VVith closed eies thy power hath made me viewe,
My stopped cares thou haste compeld to heare,
The fame, and speach, that makes my harte to rue,
And seeds my thoughts, with sucke of sowre cheare,
I ioye and mourne within thy carefull cage,
As men do smile possest with rauing rage.
My stopped cares thou haste compeld to heare,
The fame, and speach, that makes my harte to rue,
And seeds my thoughts, with sucke of sowre cheare,
I ioye and mourne within thy carefull cage,
As men do smile possest with rauing rage.
O dreaming Dormouse, drownde in daily sleepe,
I grudge to see thy long delightfull reste,
O Morpheus, yeelde vpon my limmes to heape
The burthen graunted once, vppon requeste
Vnto Endymion and Epiminyde,
Or let mine eies their fatall sleepe abide.
I grudge to see thy long delightfull reste,
O Morpheus, yeelde vpon my limmes to heape
The burthen graunted once, vppon requeste
Vnto Endymion and Epiminyde,
Or let mine eies their fatall sleepe abide.
| A Courtlie controuersie of Cupids Cautels | |