LXXXIX.
[“Loue hath delight in sweete delicious fare]
The two first staffes of this Sonnet are altogether sententiall,
and euerie one verse of them is grownded vpon a diuerse
reason and authoritie from the rest. I haue thought good
for breuitie sake, onelie to set downe here the authorities,
with figures, whereby to applie euerie one of them to his
due lyne in order as they stand. 1. Hieronimus: In delicijs
difficile est seruare castitatem. 2 Ausonius: dispulit inconsultus amor
&c. 3. Seneca: Amor est ociosa causa sollicitudinis. 4. Propertius:
Errat, qui finem vesani quærit amoris. 5. Horatius: Semper
ardentes acuēs sagittas. 6. Xenophon scribit amorem esse igne, &
flamma flagrantiorem, quòd ignis vrat tangentes, et proxima tantū
cremet, amor ex longinquo spectante torreat. 7. Calenti: Plurima
Zelotipo sunt in amore mala. 8. Ouidius: Inferet arma tibi sæua rebellis
amor. 9. Pontanus: Si vacuum sineret perfidiosus amor. 10.
Marullus: Quid tantum lachrimis meis proterue Jnsultas puer? 11.
Tibullus: At lasciuus amor rixa mala verba ministrat. 12. Virgilius:
Bellum sæpe petit ferus exitiale Cupido.
“Loue hath delight in sweete delicious fare;
“Loue neuer takes good Counsell for his frende;
“Loue author is, and cause of ydle care;
“Loue is distraught of witte, and hath no end;
“Loue shoteth shaftes of burning hote desire;
“Loue burneth more then eyther flame or fire;
“Loue doth much harme through Iealosies assault;
“Loue once embrast will hardly part againe;
“Loue thinkes in breach of faith there is no fault;
“Loue makes a sporte of others deadly paine;
“Loue is a wanton Childe, and loues to brall;
“Loue with his warre bringes many soules to thrall.
12. Virgil. de Vino et Uenere.
These are the smallest faultes that lurke in Loue,
These are the hurtes which I haue cause to curse,
These are those truethes which no man can disproue,
These are such harmes as none can suffer worse.
All this I write, that others may beware,
Though now my selfe twise free from all such care.
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Poem XC. is a Latin paraphrase of Sonnetto 313 of Petrarch.
