When that I poore soule was borne,
I was borne unfortunate:
Presently the Fates had sworne,
To fore-tell my haplesse state.
Titan his faire beames did hide,
Phoebe ‘clip’d her silver light:
In my birth my Mother died,
Young and faire in heavie plight.
And the Nurse that gave me suck,
Haplesse was in all her life:
And I never had good luck,
Being mayde or married wife.
I lov’d well, and was belov’d,
And forgetting, was forgot:
This a haplesse marriage mov’d,
Greeving that it kills me not.
With the earth would I were wed,
Then in such a grave of woes
Daylie to be buried,
Which no end nor number knowes.
Young my Father married me,
Forc’d by my obedience:
Syrenus, thy faith, and thee
I forgot without offence.
Which contempt I pay so farre,
Never like was paid so much:
Jealousies doo make me warre,
But without a cause of such.
I doo goe with jealous eyes,
To my folds, and to my Sheepe:
And with jealousie I rise,
When the day begins to peepe.
At his table I doo eate,
In his bed with him I lie:
But I take no rest, nor meate,
Without cruell jealousie.
If I aske him what he ayles,
And whereof he jealous is?
In his aunswere then he failes,
Nothing can he say to this.
In his face there is no cheere,
But he ever hangs the head:
In each corner he dooth peere,
And his speech is sad and dead.
Ill the poore soule lives ywis:
That so hardly married is.
(Bartholomew Young)
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