Sel. I See thee jolly Sheepheard merrie,
And firme thy faith, and sound as a berrie.
Sil. Love gave me joy, and Fortune gave it,
As my desire could wish to have it.
Sel. What didst thou wish, tell me (sweete Lover,)
Whereby thou might’st such joy recover?
Sil. To love where love should be inspired:
Since there’s no more to be desired.
Sel. In this great glory, and great gladnes,
Think’st thou to have no touch of sadnes?
Sil. Good Fortune gave me not such glorie:
To mock my Love, or make me sorrie.
Sel. If my firme love I were denying,
Tell me, with sighs would’st thou be dying?
Sil. Those words (in jeast) to heare thee speaking:
For very griefe this hart is breaking.
Sel. Yet would’st thou change, I pre-thee tell me,
In seeing one that did excell me?
Sil. O no, for how can I aspire,
To more, then to mine owne desire?
Sel. Such great affection doo’st thou beare me:
As by thy words thou seem’st to sweare me?
Sil. Of thy deserts, to which a debter
I am, thou maist demaund this better.
Sel. Sometimes me thinks, that I should sweare it,
Sometimes me thinks, thou should’st not beare it.
Sil. Onely in this my hap dooth greeve me,
And my desire, not to beleeve me.
Sel. Imagine that thou doo’st not love mine,
But some brave beauty that’s above mine.
Sil. To such a thing (sweete) doo not will me:
Where faining of the same dooth kill me.
Sel. I see thy firmnesse gentle Lover,
More then my beauty can discover.
Sil. And my good fortune to be higher
Then my desert, but not desire.
(Bartholomew Young)
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