Syl. Sheepheard, why doo’st thou hold thy peace?
Sing, and thy joy to us report:
Arsil. My joy good (Sheepheard) should be lesse,
If it were told in any sort.
Syl. Though such great favours thou doo’st winne,
Yet daigne thereof to tell some part:
Arsil. The hardest thing is to begin,
In enterprizes of such Art.
Syl. Come make an end, no cause omit,
Of all the joyes that thou art in:
Arsil. How should I make an end of it,
That am not able to begin?
Syl. It is not just, we should consent,
That thou should’st not thy joyes recite:
Arsil. The soule that felt the punishment,
Dooth onely feele this great delight.
Syl. That joy is small, and nothing fine,
That is not told abroade to manie:
Arsil. If it be such a joy as mine,
It can be never told to anie.
Syl. How can this hart of thine containe
A joy, that is of such great force?
Arsil. I have it, where I did retaine
My passions of so great remorce.
Syl. So great and rare a joy is this,
No man is able to with-hold:
Arsil. But greater that a pleasure is,
The lesse it may with words be told.
Syl. Yet have I heard thee heeretofore,
Thy joyes in open Songs report:
Arsil. I said, I had of joy some store,
But not how much, nor in what sort.
Syl. Yet when a joy is in excesse,
It selfe it will oft-times unfold:
Arsil. Nay, such a joy would be the lesse,
If but a word thereof were told.
(Bartholomew Young)
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