VI.

Be nought dismayd that her unmoved mind
Doth still persist in her rebellious pride:
Such love, not lyke to lusts of baser kynd,
The harder wonne, the firmer will abide.
The durefull oake, whose sap is not yet dride,
Is long ere it conceive the kindling fyre;
But, when it once doth burne, it doth divide
Great heat, and makes his flames to heaven aspire.

So hard it is to kindle new desire

In gentle brest, that shall endure for ever:

Deepe is the wound, that dints the parts entire

With chaste affects, that naught but death can sever. Then thinke not long in taking little paine

To knit the knot, that ever shall remaine.

VII.

Fayre eyes! the myrrour of my mazed hart,

What wondrous vertue is contayn'd in you,

The which both lyfe and death forth from you dart
Into the obiect of your mighty view?

For, when ye mildly looke with lovely hew,
Then is my soule with life and love inspired:
But when ye lowre, or looke on me askew,
Then do I die, as one with lightning fyred.
But, since that lyfe is more then death desyred,
Looke ever lovely, as becomes you best;

That your bright beams, of my weak eies admyred,

May kindle living fire within my brest.

Such life should be the honor of your light,
Such death the sad ensample of your might.

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VIII.

More then most faire, full of the living fire,
Kindled above unto the Maker nere;

No eies but ioyes, in which al powers conspire,

That to the world naught else be counted deare.

Thrugh your bright beams doth not the blinded guest Shoot out his darts to base affections wound;

But Angels come to lead fraile mindes to rest

nd.]

In chast desires, on heavenly beauty bound.

You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within;
You stop my toung, and teach my hart to speake;
You calme the storme that passion did begin,
Strong thrugh your cause, but by your vertue weak.
Dark is the world, where your light shined never;
Well is he borne, that may behold you ever.

IX.

Long-while I sought to what I might compare
Those powrefull eies, which lighten my dark spright:
Yet find I nought on earth, to which I dare
Resemble th' ymage of their goodly light.

Not to the Sun; for they doo shine by night;
Nor to the Moone; for they are changed never;
Nor to the Starres; for they have purer sight;
Nor to the Fire; for they consume not ever;
Nor to the Lightning; for they still persever;
Nor to the Diamond; for they are more tender;
Nor unto Cristall; for nought may them sever;
Nor unto Glasse; such basenesse mought offend her.
Then to the Maker selfe they likest be,

Whose light doth lighten all that here we seè.

Vide REMARKS, p. 36.

X.

Unrighteous Lord of love, what law is this,
That me thou makest thus tormented be,
The whiles she lordeth in licentious blisse
Of her freewill, scorning both thee and me?
See! how the Tyrannesse doth ioy to see
The hugh massacres which her eyes do make;
And humbled harts brings captive unto thee,
That thou of them mayst mightie vengeance take.
But her proud hart doe thou a little shake,

And that high look, with which she doth comptroll

All this worlds pride, bow to a baser make,
And al her faults in thy black booke enroll:

That I may laugh at her in equall sort,

As she doth laugh at me, and makes my pain her sport.