If that the gentle winde
dooth moove the leaves with pleasant sound,
If that the Kid behind
Is left, that cannot find
her dam, runnes bleating up and downe:
The Bagpipe, Reede, or Flute,
onely with ayre if that they touched be,
With pitty all salute,
And full of love doo brute
thy name, and sound Diana, seeing thee:
A faire Mayde wed to prying Jealousie.
The fierce and savage beasts
(beyond their kind and nature yet)
With pitteous voyce and brest,
In mountaines without rest
the selfe same Song doo not forget.
If that they stay’d at (Faire)
and had not passed to prying Jealousie:
With plaints of such despaire
As moov’d the gentle ayre
to teares: The Song that they did sing, should be
One of the fayrest as ever I did see.
Mishap, and fortunes play,
ill did they place in Beauties brest:
For since so much to say,
There was of beauties sway,
they had done well to leave the rest.
They had enough to doo,
if in her praise their wits they did awake:
But yet so must they too,
And all thy love that woo,
thee not too coy, nor too too proude to make,
If that thou wilt a secret Lover take.
For if thou hadst but knowne
the beauty, that they heere doo touch,
Thou woul’dst then love alone
Thy selfe, nor any one,
onely thy selfe accounting much.
But if thou doo’st conceave
this beauty, that I will not publique make,
And mean’st not to bereave
The world of it, but leave
the same to some (which never peere did take,)
(Sweet life) doo not my secret love forsake.
(Bartholomew Young)
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