Paridell rapeth Hellenore:
Malbecco
Malbeeco
Malbceco
her poursewes:
Fynds emongst Satyres, whence with him
To turne she doth refuse.
[1]
THhe morow next, so soone as Phœbus Lamp
Bewrayed had the world with early light,
And fresh
Aurora
Anrora
Aurora
had the shady damp
Out of the goodly heuenheven
amouedamoved quight,
Faire Britomart and that same Faery knight
VproseUprose, forth on their iourneyjourney for to wend:
But Paridell
complaynd, that his late fight
With Britomart, so sore did him offend,
That ryde he could not, till his hurts he did
amend.
[2]
So foorth they far’d, but he behind them
stayd,
Maulgre his host, who grudged
grieuouſ⁀lygrieuouslygrievouſ⁀lygrievously
griuouſ⁀lygriuouslygrivouſ⁀lygrivously
To house a guest, that would be needes obayd,
And of his owne him left not liberty:
Might wanting measure mouethmoveth surquedry.
Two things he feared, but the third was death;
That fiers youngmans vnrulyunruly maystery;
His money, which he lou’dlov’d as liuingliving breath;
And his faire wife, whom honest long he kept vneathuneath.
[3]
But patience perforce he must abie,
What fortune and his fate on him will lay,
Fond is the feare, that findes no remedie;
Yet warily he watcheth eueryevery way,
By which he feareth euillevill happen may:
So th’euillevill thinkes by watching to preuentprevent;
Ne doth he suffer her, nor night, nor day,
Out of his sight her selfe once to absent.
So doth he punish her and eke himselfe
torment.
[4]
But Paridell kept better watch, 1590.bk3.III.x.4.1. then: thanthenthan hee,
A fit occasion for his turne to finde:
False louelove, why do men say, thou canst not see,
And in their foolish fancy feigne thee blinde,
That with thy charmes the sharpest sight doest binde,
And to thy will abuse? Thou walkest free,
And seest eueryevery secret of the minde;
Thou seest all, yet none at all sees thee;
All that is by the working of thy Deitee.
[5]
So perfect in that art was Paridell,
That he
Malbeccoes
Melbeccoes
halfen eye did wyle,
His halfen eye he wiled wondrous well,
And Hellenors both eyes did eke beguyle,
Both eyes and hart attonce, during the whyle
That he there soiournedsojourned his woundes to heale,
That Cupid selfe it seeing, close did
smyle,
To weet how he her louelove away did steale,
And bad, that none their ioyousjoyous treason should reuealereveale.
[6]
The learned louerlover lost no time nor tyde,
That least auantageavantage mote to him afford,
Yet bore so faire a sayle, that none espyde
His secret drift, till he her layd abord.
When so in open place, and commune bord,
He fortun’d her to meet, with commune speach
He courted her, yet bayted eueryevery word,
That his vngentleungentle hoste n’ote him appeach
Of vile vngentlenesseungentlenesse, or hospitages breach.
[7]
But when apart (if euerever her apart)
He found, then his false engins fast he plyde,
And all the sleights vnbosomdunbosomd in his hart;
He sigh’d, he sobd, he swownd, he perdy dyde,
And cast himselfe on ground her fast besyde:
Tho when againe he him bethought to liuelive,
He wept, and wayld, and false laments belyde,
Saying, but if she Mercie would him giuegive
That he mote algates dye, yet did his death forgiueforgive.
[8]
And otherwhyles with amorous delights,
And pleasing toyes he would her entertaine,
Now singing sweetly, to surprize her sprights,
Now making layes of louelove and louerslovers paine,
Bransles, Ballads, virelayes, and verses vaine;
Oft purposes, oft riddles he deuysddevysd,
And thousands like, which flowed in his braine,
With which he fed her fancy, and entysd
To take towith his new louelove, and leaueleave her old despysd.
[9]
And eueryevery where he might, and euerieeverie while
He did her seruiceservice dewtifull, and sewd
At hand with humble pride, and pleasing guile,
So closely yet, that none but she it vewd,
Who well perceiuedperceived all, and all indewd.
Thus finely did he his false nets dispred,
With which he many weake harts had subdewd,
Of yore, and many had ylike misled:
What wonder then, if she were likewise
carried?
[10]
No fort so fensible, no wals so strong,
But that continuall battery will riuerive,
Or daily siege through dispuruayauncedispurvayaunce long,
And lacke of reskewes will to parley driue,drive,driue;drive;
And Peece, that vntounto parley eare will giuegive,
Will shortly yield it selfe, and will be made
The vassall of the victors will byliuebylive:
That stratageme had oftentimes assayd
This crafty Paramoure, and now it plaine
displayd.
[11]
For through his traines he her intrapped
hath,
That she her louelove and hart hath wholy sold
To him, without regard of gaine, or scath,
Or care of credite, or of husband old,
Whom she hath vow’d to dub a fayre Cucquold.
Nought wants but time &and place, which shortly shee
DeuizedDevized hath, and to her lover told.told,
It pleased well. So well they both agree;
So readie rype to ill, ill wemens counsels
bee.
[12]
Darke was the EueningEvening, fit for louerslovers stealth,
When chaunst
Malbecco
Melbecco
busie be elsewhere,
She to his closet went, where all his wealth
Lay hid: thereof she countlesse summes did reare,
The which she meant away with her to beare;
The rest she fyr’d for sport, or for despight;
As Hellene, when she saw aloft
appeare
The TroianeTrojane flames, and reach to heuenshevens hight
Did clap her hands, and ioyedjoyed at that dolefull sight.
[13]
This second HeleneHellene, fayre Dame HellenoreHcllenore,
The whiles her husband ran with sory haste,
To quench the flames, which she had tyn’d before,before.
Laught at his foolish labour spent in waste;
And ran into her louerslovers armes right fast;
Where streight embraced, she to him did cry,
And call alowd for helpe, ere helpe were past,
For lo that Guest didwould beare her forcibly,
And meant to rauishravish her, that rather had to dy.
[14]
The wretched man hearing her call for
ayd,
And ready seeing him with her to fly,
In his disquiet mind was much dismayd:
But when againe he backeward cast his eye,
And saw the wicked fire so furiously
Consume his hart, and scorch his Idoles face,
He was therewith distressed diuerselydiversely,
Ne wist he how to turne, nor to what place,place.
Was neuernever wretched man in such a wofull cace.
[15]
Ay when to him she cryde, to her he
turnd,
And left the fire; louelove money ouercameovercame:
But when he marked, how his money burnd,
He left his wife; money did louelove disclame:
Both was he loth to loose his louedloved Dame,
And loth to leaueleave his liefest pelfe behinde,
Yet sith he n’ote sauesave both, he sau’dsav’d that same,
Which was the dearest to his dounghill minde,
The God of his desire, the ioyjoy of misers blinde.
[16]
Thus whilest all things in troublous vproreuprore were,
And all men busie to suppresse the flame,
The louingloving couple neede no reskew feare,
But leasure had, and liberty to frame
Their purpost flight, free from all mens reclame;
And Night, the patronesse of louelove-stealth fayre,
GaueGave them safe conductsafeconduc⁀tsafeconduct, till to end they came:
So beene they gone yfere, a wanton payre
Of louerslovers loosely knit, where list them to repayre.
[17]
Soone as the cruell flames yslaked were,
Malbecco seeing, how his
losse did lye,
Out of the flames, which he had quencht whylere
Into huge waueswaves of griefe and gealosye
Full deepe emplonged was, and drowned nye:
Twixt inward doole and felonous despight,despight;
He rau’drav’d, he wept, he stampt, he lowd did cry,
And all the passions, that in man may light,
Did him attonce oppresse, and vex his caytiuecaytive spright.
[18]
Long thus he chawd the cud of inward
griefe,
And did consume his gall with anguish sore,
Still when he mused on his late mischiefe,
SoThen still the smart thereof increased more,
And seemd more grieuousgrievous, 1590.bk3.III.x.18.5. then: thanthenthan it was before:
At last when sorrow he saw booted nought,
Ne griefe might not his louelove to him restore,
He gan deuisedevise, how her he reskew mought,
Ten thousand wayes he cast in his confused
thought.
[19]
At last resoluingresolving, like a Pilgrim pore,
To search her forth, where so she might be fond,
And bearing with him treasure in close store,
The rest he leauesleaves in ground: So takes in hond
To seeke her endlong, both by sea and lond.
Long he her sought, he sought her far and nere,
And eueryevery where that he mote vnderstondunderstond,
Of knights and ladies any meetings were,
And of eachone
he mett, he tidings did inquere.
[20]
But all in vaine, his woman was too wise,
EuerEver to come into his clouch againe,
And hee too simple euerever to surprise
The iollyjolly
Paridell, for all his
paine.
One day, as hee forpassed by the plaine
With weary pace, he far away espide
A couple, seeming well to be his twaine,
Which houedhoved close vnderunder a forest side,
As if they lay in wait, or els them seluesselves did hide.
[21]
Well weened hee, that those the same mote
bee,
And as he better did their shape auizeavize,
Him seemed more their maner did agree;
For th’one was armed all in warlike wize,
Whom, to be Paridell he did deuizedevize;
And th’other al yclad in garments light,
Discolourd like to womanish disguise,
He did resemble to his lady bright,
And euerever his faint hart much earned at the sight.
[22]
And euerever faine he towards them would goe,
But yet durst not for dread approchen nie,
But stood aloofe, vnweetingunweeting what to doe,
Till that prickt forth with louesloves extremity,
That is the father of fowle gealosy,
He closely nearer crept, the truth to weet:
But, as he nigher drew, he easily
Might scerne, that it was not his sweetest sweet,
Ne yet her Belamour, the partner of his
sheet.
[23]
But it was scornefull
BraggadochioBraggadocchio,
That with his seruantservant
Trompart
houerdhoverd there,
Sith late he fled from his too earnest foe:
Whom such whenas Malbecco spyed clere,
He turned backe, and would hauehave fled arere;
Till Trompart ronning hastely, him did stay,
And bad before his souerainesoveraine Lord appere:
That was him loth, yet durst he not gainesay,
And comming him before, low louted on the
lay.
[24]
The Boaster at him sternely bent his
browe,
As if he could hauehave kild him with his looke,
That to the ground him meekely made to bowe,
And awfull terror deepe into him strooke,
That eueryevery member of his body quooke.
Said he, thou man of nought, what doest thou here,
VnfitlyUnfitly furnisht with thy bag and booke,
Where I expected one with shield and spere,
To proueprove some deeds of armes vponupon an equall pere.
[25]
The wretched man at his imperious speach,
Was all abasht, and low prostrating, said;
Good Sir, let not my rudenes be no breach
VntoUnto your patience, ne be ill ypaid;
For I vnwaresunwares this way by fortune straid,
A silly Pilgrim driuendriven to distresse,
That seeke a Lady There he suddein staid,
And did the rest with grieuousgrievous sighes suppresse,
While teares stood in his eies, few drops of
bitternesse.
[26]
What Lady, man? (said Trompart) take good hart,
And tell thy griefe, if any hidden lye;
Was neuernever better time to shew thy smart,
1590.bk3.III.x.26.4. Then: ThanThenThan now, that noble succor is thee by,
That is the whole worlds commune remedy.
That chearful word his weak heart much did cheare,
And with vaine hope his spirits faint supply,
That bold he sayd, O most redoubted Pere,
Vouchsafe with mild regard a wretches cace to
heare.
[27]
Then sighing sore, It is not long (saide
hee)
Sith I enioydenjoyd the gentlest Dame aliuealive;
Of whom a knight, no knight at all perdee
But shame of all, that doe for honor striuestrive,
By treacherous deceipt did me depriuedeprive;
Through open outrage he her bore away,
And with fowle force vntounto his will did driuedrive,
Which al good knights, that armes do bear this day,
Are bownd for to reuengerevenge, and punish if they may.
[28]
And you most noble Lord, that can and
dare
Redresse the wrong of miserable wight,
Cannot employ your most victorious speare
In better quarell, 1590.bk3.III.x.28.4. then: thanthenthan defence of right,
And for a Lady gainst a faithlesse knight,
So shall your glory bee aduauncedadvaunced much,
And all faire Ladies magnify your might,
And eke my selfe, albee I simple such,
Your worthy paine shall wel reward with
guerdon rich.
[29]
With that out of his bouget forth he drew
Great store of treaſuretreasuretreaſutetreasutethreaſurethreasure, therewith him to tempt;
But he on it lookt scornefully askew,
As much disdeigning to be so misdempt,
Or a war-monger to be basely nempt;
And sayd, thy offers base I greatly loth,
And eke thyThy words vncourteousuncourteous and vnkemptunkempt;
I tread in dust thee and thy money both,
That, were it not for shame, So turned from
him wroth.
[30]
But Trompart, that his maiſtresmaistresmaiſtersmaisters humor knew,
In lofty looks to hide an humble minde,
Was inly tickled with that golden vew,
And in his eare him rowndedgroundedrounded close behinde:
Yet stoupt he not, but lay still in the winde,
Waiting aduauntageadvauntage on the pray to sease;
Till Trompart lowly to the grownd inclinde,
Besought him his great corage to appease,
And pardon simple man, that rash did him
displease.
[31]
Big looking like a doughty Doucepere,
At last he thus, Thou clod of vilest clay,
I pardon yield, and with thythat with rudenes beare;
But weete henceforth, that all that golden pray,
And all that els the vaine world vaunten may,
I loath as doung, ne deeme my dew reward:
Fame is my meed, and glory virtues payvertuous prayvirtues pray.
But minds of mortal men are muchell mard,
And mou’dmov’d amisse with massy mucks vnmeetunmeet regard.
[32]
And moremote, I graunt to thy great misery
Gratious respect, thy wife shall backe be sent,
And that vile knight, who euerever that he bee,
Which hath thy lady reft, and knighthood shent,
By Sanglamort my sword, whose deadly
dent
The blood hath of so many thousands shedd,
I sweare, ere long shall dearly it repent;
Ne he twixt heuenheven and earth shall hide his hedd,
But soone he shalbe fownd, and shortly doen
be dedd.
[33]
The foolish man thereat woxe wondrous
blith,
As if the word so spoken, were halfe donne,
And humbly thanked him a thousand sith,
That had from death to life him newly wonne.
Tho forth the Boaster marching, brauebrave begonne
His stolen steed to thunder furiously,
As if he heauenheaven and hell would oueronneoveronne,
And all the world confound with cruelty,
That much Malbecco
ioyedjoyed in his iollityjollity.
[34]
Thus long they three together traueiledtraveiled,
Through many a wood, and many an vncouthuncouth way,
To seeke his wife, that was far wandered:
But those two sought nought, but the present pray,
To weete the treasure, which he did bewray,
On which their eies and harts were wholly sett,
With purpose, how they might it best betray;
For sith the howre, that first he did them lett
The same behold, therwith their keene desires
were whett.
[35]
It fortuned as they together far’d,
They spide, where Paridell came pricking fast
VponUpon the plaine, the which him selfe prepar’d
To giust with that brauebrave straunger knight a cast,
As on aduentureadventure by the way he past:
Alone he rode without his Paragone;
For hauinghaving filcht her bells, her vpup he cast
To the wide world, and let her fly alone,
He nould be clogd. So had he seruedserved many one.
[36]
The gentle Lady,Lady. loose at randon lefte,
The greene-wood long did walke, and wander wide
At wilde aduentureadventure, like a forlorne wefte,
Till on a day the Satyres her espide
Straying alone withouten groome or guide;
Her vpup they tooke, and with them home her ledd,
With them as housewife euerever to abide,
To milk their gotes, and make them cheese &and bredd,
And eueryevery one as commune good her handeled.
[37]
That shortly she Malbecco has forgott,
And eke Sir Paridell, all were he deare;
Who from her went to seeke another lott,
And now by fortune was arriuedarrived here,
Where those two guilers with Malbecco were:
Soone as the oldman saw Sir Paridell,
He fainted, and was almost dead with feare,
Ne word he had to speake, his griefe to tell,
But to him louted low, and greeted goodly
well.
[38]
And after asked him for Hellenore,
I take no keepe of her (sayd Paridell)
She wonneth in the forrest there before.
So forth he rode, as his aduentureadventure fell;
The whiles the Boaster from his loftie sell
Faynd to alight, something amisse to mend;
But the fresh Swayne would not his leasure dwell,
But went his way; whom when he passed kend,
He vpup remounted light, and after faind to wend.
[39]
Perdy nay (said Malbecco) shall ye not:
But let him passe as lightly, as he came:
For litle good of him is to be got,
And mickle perill to bee put to shame.
But let vsus goe to seeke my dearest Dame,
Whom he hath left in yonder forest wyld:
For of her safety in great doubt I ame,
Least saluagesalvage beastes her person hauehave despoyld:
Then all the world is lost, and we in vaine hauehave toyld.
[40]
TheyThe all agree, and forward them addrest:
Ah but (said crafty Trompart) weete ye well,
That yonder in that waſtefullwastefullfaithfull wildernesse
Huge monsters haunt, and many dangers dwell;
Dragons, and Minotaures, and feendes of hell,
And many wilde woodmen, which robbe &and rend
All traueilerstraveilers; therefore aduiseadvise ye well,
Before ye enterprise that way to wend:
One may his iourneyjourney bring too soone to euillevill end.
[41]
Malbecco stopt in great
astonishment,
And with pale eyes fast fixed on the rest,
Their counsell crau’dcrav’d, in daunger imminent.
Said Trompart, youYou that are the most opprest
With burdein of great treasure, I thinke best
Here for to stay in safetie behynd;
My Lord and I will search the wide forest.
That counsell pleased not Malbeccoes mynd;
For he was much afraid, him selfe alone to
fynd.
[42]
Then is it best (said he) that ye doe leaueleave
Your treasure here in some security,
Either fast closed in some hollow greauegreave,
Or buried in the ground from ieopardyjeopardy,
Till we returne againe in safety:
As for vsus two, least doubt of vsus ye hauehave,
Hence farre away we will blyndfolded ly,
Ne priuyprivy bee vntounto your treasures grauegrave.
It pleased: so he did. Then they march
forward brauebrave.
[43]
Now when amid the thickest woodes they
were,
They heard a noyse of many bagpipes shrill,
And shrieking Hububs them approching nere,
Which all the forest did with horrour fill:
That dreadfull sound the bosters hart did thrill,
With such amazment, that in hast he fledd,
Ne euerever looked back for good or ill,
And after him eke fearefull Trompart spedd;
The old man could not fly, but fell to ground
half dedd.
[44]
Yet afterwardes close creeping, as he
might,
He in a bush did hyde his fearefull hedd,
The iollyjolly
Satyres full of fresh delight,
Came dauncing forth, and with them nimbly ledd
Faire HelenoreHellenore, with girlonds all bespredd,
Whom their May-lady they had newly made:
She proude of that new honour, which they redd,
And of their louelylovely fellowship full glade,
Daunst liuelylively, and her face did with a Lawrell shade.
[45]
The silly man that in the thickett lay
Saw all this goodly sport, and grieuedgrieved sore,
Yet durst he not against it doe or say,
But did his hart with bitter thoughts engore,
To see th’vnkindnesth’unkindnes of his Hellenore.
All day they daunced with great lusty hedd,
And with their horned feet the greene gras wore,
The whiles their Gotes vponupon the brouzes fed,fedd.fed.
Till drouping Phœbus gan to hyde his golden hedd.
[46]
Tho vpup they gan their mery pypes to trusse,
And all their goodly heardes did gather rownd,
But eueryevery
Satyre first did giuegive a busse
To Hellenore: so busses did abound.
Now gan the humid vapour shed the growndgrownd.ground
With perly deaw, and th’Earthes gloomy shade
Did dim the brightnesse of the welkin rownd,
That eueryevery bird and beast awarned made,
To shrowd themseluesthemselves, whiles sleepe their sences did inuade.invade.
[47]
Which when
Malbecco
Melbecco
saw, out of his bush
VponUpon his handshand and feete he crept full light,
And like a Gote emongst the Gotes did rush,
That through the helpe of his faire hornes on hight,
And misty dampe of misconceyuingmisconceyving night,
And eke through likenesse of his gotish beard,
He did the better counterfeite aright:
So home he marcht emongst the horned heard,
That none of all the Satyres him espyde or heard.
[48]
At night, when all they went to sleepe, he
vewd,
Whereas his louelylovely wife emongst them lay,
Embraced of a Satyre rough and rude,
Who all the night did minde his ioyousjoyous play:
Nine times he heard him come aloft ere day,
That all his hart with gealosy did swell;
But yet that nights ensample did bewray,
That not for nought his wife them louedloved so well,
When one so oft a night did ring his matins
bell.
[49]
So closely as he could, he to them crept,
When wearie of their sport to sleepe they fell,
And to his wife, that now full soundly slept,
He whispered in her eare, and did her tell,
That it was he, which by her side did dwell,
And therefore prayd her wake, to heare him plaine.
As one out of a dreame not waked well,
She turnd her, and returned backe againe:
Yet her for to awake he did the more
constraine.
[50]
At last with irkesom trouble she abrayd;
And then perceiuingperceiving, that it was indeed
Her old Malbecco, which did her vpbraydupbrayd,
With loosenesse of her louelove, and loathly deed,
She was astonisht with exceeding dreed,
And would hauehave wakt the Satyre by herhe r syde;
But he her prayd, for mercy, or for meed,
To sauesave his life, ne let him be descryde,
But hearken to his lore, and all his counsell hyde.
[51]
Tho gan he her perswade, to leaueleave that lewd
And loathsom life, of God and man abhord,
And home returne, where all should be renewd
With perfect peace, and bandes of fresh accord,
And she receiudreceivd againe to bed and bord,
As if no trespas euerever had beene donne:
But she it all refused at one word,
And by no meanes would to his will be wonne,
But chose emongst the iollyjolly
Satyres still to wonne.wonne
[52]
He wooed her, till day springsprings he espyde;
But all in vaine: and then turnd to the heard,
Who butted him with hornes on eueryevery syde,
And trode downe in the durt, where his hore beard
Was fowly dight, and he of death afeard.
Early before the heauensheavens fairest light
Out of the ruddy East was fully reard,
The heardes out of their foldes were loosed quight,
And he emongst the rest crept forth in sory
plight.
[53]
So soone as he the Prison dore did pas,
He ran as fast, as both his feet could beare,
And neuernever looked, who behind him was,
Ne scarsely who before: like as a Beare
That creeping close, amongst the hiueshives to reare
An hony combe, the wakefull dogs espy,
And him assayling, sore his carkas teare,
That hardly he with life away does fly,
Ne stayes, till safe him selfe he see from ieopardyjeopardy.
[54]
Ne stayd he, till he came vntounto the place,
Where late his treasure he entombed had,
Where when he found it not (for Trompart bace
Had it purloyned for his maister
bad:)bad):
With extreme fury he became quite mad,
And ran away, ran with him selfe away:
That who so straungely had him seene bestadd,
With vpstartupstart haire, and staring eyes dismay,
From Limbo lake him late escaped sure would
say.
[55]
High ouerover hilles and ouerover dales he fledd,
As if the wind him on his winges had borne,
Ne banck nor bush could stay him, when he spedd
His nimble feet, as treading still on thorne:
Griefe, and despight, and gealosygealofygealoſiegealosie
iealouſieiealousiejealouſiejealousie
, and scorne
Did all the way him follow hard behynd,
And he himselfe himselfe loath’d so forlorne,
So shamefully forlorne of womankynd;
That as a Snake, still lurked in his wounded
mynd.
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Still fled he forward, looking backward
still,
Ne stayd his flight, nor fearefull agony,
Till that he came vntounto a rocky hill,
OuerOver the sea, suspended dreadfully,
That liuingliving creature it would terrify,
To looke adowne, or vpwardupward to the hight:
From thence he threw him selfe dispiteously,
All desperate of his fore-damned spright,
That seemd no help for him was left in liuingliving sight.
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But through long anguish, and selfe-murdring
thought
He was so wasted and forpined quight,
That all his substance was consum’d to nought,
And nothing left, but like an aery Spright,
That on the rockes he fell so flit and light,
That he thereby receiu’dreceiv’d no hurt at all,
But chaunced on a craggy cliff to light;
Whence he with crooked clawes so long did crall,
That at the last he found a cauecave with entrance small.
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Into the same he creepes, and thenceforth
there
Resolu’dResolv’d to build his balefull mansion,
In drery darkenes, and continuall feare
Of that rocks fall, which euerever and anon
Threates with huge ruine him to fall vponupon,
That he dare neuernever sleepe, but that one eye
Still ope he keepes for that occasion;
Ne euerever rests he in tranquillity,
The roring billowes beat his bowre so
boystrously.
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Ne euerever is he wont on ought to feed,
But todes and frogs, his pasture poysonous,
Which in his cold complexion doe breed
A filthy blood, or humour rancorous,
Matter of doubt and dread suspitious,
That doth with curelesse care consume the hart,
Corrupts the stomacke with gall vitious,
Croscuts the liuerliver with internall smart,
And doth transfixe the soule with deathes
eternall dart.
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Yet can he neuernever dye, but dying liueslives,
And doth himselfe with sorrow new sustaine,
That death and life attonce vntounto him
giues,gives,
giues.gives.
And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine.
There dwels he euerever, miserable swaine,
Hatefull both to him selfe, and eueryevery wight;
Where he through priuyprivy griefe, and horrour vaine,
Is woxen so deform’d, that he has quight
Forgot he was a man, and Gelosy is hight.
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