A faire Mayde wed to prying Jealousie,
One of the fairest as ever I did see:
If that thou wilt a secret Lover take,
(Sweet life) doe not my secret love forsake.
Ecclipsed was our Sunne,
And faire Aurora darkened to us quite
Our morning starre was doone,
And Sheepheards starre lost cleane out of our sight,
When that thou didst thy faith in wedlock plight.
Dame Nature made thee faire,
And ill did carelesse Fortune marry thee,
And pitty with despaire
It was, that this thy haplesse hap should be,
A faire Mayde wed to prying Jealousie.
Our eyes are not so bold
To view the Sun, that flies with radiant wing:
Unlesse that we doo hold
A glasse before them, or some other thing.
Then wisely this to passe did Fortune bring
To cover thee with such a vaile:
For heeretofore, when any viewed thee,
Thy sight made his to faile,
For (sooth) thou art: thy beautie telleth mee,
One of the fairest as ever I did see.
Thy graces to obscure,
With such a froward husband, and so base
She meant thereby most sure
That Cupids force, and love thou should’st embrace,
For ’tis a force to love, no wondrous case.
Then care no more for kin,
And doubt no more, for feare thou must forsake,
To love thou must begin,
And from hence-forth this question never make,
If that thou should’st a secret Lover take?
Of force it dooth behoove
That thou should’st be belov’d, and that againe
(Faire Mistresse) thou should’st love,
For to what end, what purpose, and what gaine,
Should such perfections serve? as now in vaine.
My love is of such art,
That (of it selfe) it well deserves to take
In thy sweete love a part:
Then for no Shepheard, that his love dooth make,
(Sweet life) doo not my secret love forsake.
(Bartholomew Young)
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