A
discourse
of
the
aduentures
passed
by
Master
F.
I.
H.
VV.
to
the
Reader
.
IN
August
last
passed
my
familiar
friend
Master
G.
T.
bestowed
vppon
me
the
reading
of
a
written
Booke
,
wherin
he
had
collected
diuers
discourses
&
verses
,
inuented
vppon
sundrie
occasions
,
by
sundrie
gentlemē
(
in
mine
opinion
)
right
commendable
for
their
capacitie
.
And
herewithal
my
said
friend
charged
me
,
that
I
should
vse
them
onely
for
mine
owne
particuler
commoditie
,
and
eftsones
safely
deliuer
the
originall
copie
to
him
againe
,
wherein
I
must
confesse
my selfe
but
halfe
a
marchant
,
for
the
copie
vnt●
him
I
haue
safely
redeliuered
.
But
the
worke
(
for
I
thought
it
worthy
to
be
publilished
)
I
haue
entreated
my
friend
A.
B.
to
emprint
:
as
one
that
thought
better
to
please
a
number
by
common
commoditie
then
to
féede
the
humor
of
any
priuate
parson
by
nedelesse
singularitie
.
This
I
haue
aduentured
,
for
thy
contentation
(
learned
Reader
.
)
And
further
haue
presumed
of
my selfe
to
christen
it
by
the
name
of
A
hundreth
sundrie
Flowers
:
In
which
poeticall
posie
are
set
forth
manie
trifling
fantasies
,
humorall
passions
,
and
straunge
affects
of
a
Louer
.
And
therin
(
although
the
wiser
sort
wold
turne
ouer
the
leafe
as
a
thing
altogether
fruitlesse
)
yet
I
my selfe
haue
reaped
this
commoditie
,
to
sit
and
smile
at
the
fond
deuises
of
such
as
haue
enchayned
them selues
in
the
golden
fetters
of
fantasie
,
and
hauing
bewrayed
them
selues
to
the
whole
world
,
do
yet
coniecture
that
they
walke
vnséene
in
a
net
.
Some
other
things
you
may
also
finde
in
this
Booke
,
which
are
as
voyde
of
vanitie
,
as
the
first
are
lame
for
gouernement
.
And
I
must
confesse
that
(
what
to
laugh
at
the
one
,
&
what
to
learne
by
the
other
)
I
haue
contrary
to
the
chardge
of
my
said
friend
G.
T.
procured
for
these
trifles
this
day
of
publication
.
Wherat
if
the
aucthors
onely
repyne
,
and
the
number
of
other
learned
mindes
be
thankfull
:
I
may
then
boast
to
haue
gained
a
bushell
of
good
will
,
in
exchange
for
one
pynt
of
péeuish
choler
.
But
if
it
fal
out
contrary
to
expectatiō
that
the
readers
iudgements
agrée
not
with
myne
opinion
in
their
commendacions
,
I
may
then
(
vnlesse
their
curtesies
supplie
my
want
of
discretion
)
with
losse
of
some
labour
,
accompt
also
the
losse
of
my
familier
friendes
,
in
doubt
whereof
,
I
couer
all
our
names
,
and
referre
you
to
the
well
written
letter
of
my
friende
G.
T.
next
following
,
whereby
you
may
more
at
large
consider
of
these
occasions
.
And
so
I
cōmend
the
praise
of
other
mens
trauailes
together
with
the
pardon
of
mine
owne
rashnes
,
vnto
the
well
willing
minds
of
discrete
readers
.
From
my
lodging
nere
the
Strande
the
xx
.
of
Ianuary
.
1572.
H.
W.
The
letter
of
G.
T.
to
his
very
friend
H.
W.
concerning
this
worke
.
REmembring
the
late
conference
passed
betwene
vs
in
my
lodging
,
and
how
you
séemed
to
estéeme
some
Pamphlets
,
which
I
did
there
shew
vnto
you
farre
aboue
their
worth
in
skill
,
I
do
straightwaye
conclude
the
same
your
iudgment
to
procede
of
two
especiall
causes
,
one
(
and
principall
)
the
stedfast
good
will
,
which
you
haue
euer
hitherto
sithens
our
first
familiaritie
borne
towardes
mée
.
An
other
(
of
no
lesse
weight
)
the
exceding
zeale
and
fauour
that
you
beare
to
good
letters
.
The
which
(
I
agrée
with
you
)
do
no
lesse
bloome
and
appeare
in
plea●aunt
ditties
or
compendious
Sonets
,
deuised
by
gréen
youthful
capacities
,
than
they
do
fruitefully
florish
vnto
perfection
in
the
ryper
workes
of
graue
and
grayheared
writers
.
For
as
in
the
last
,
the
yonger
sort
maye
make
a
mirror
of
perfecte
life
:
so
in
the
first
,
the
most
frosty
bearded
Philosopher
,
maye
take
iust
occasion
of
honest
recreation
,
not
altogether
without
holsome
lessons
,
tending
to
the
reformation
of
manners
.
For
who
doubteth
but
that
Poets
in
their
most
feyned
fables
and
imaginations
,
haue
metaphorically
set
forth
vnto
vs
the
right
rewardes
of
vertues
,
and
the
due
punnishments
for
vices
?
Marie
in
déede
I
may
not
compare
Pamphlets
vnto
Poems
,
neither
yet
may
iustly
aduant
for
our
natiue
countrimen
,
that
they
haue
in
their
verses
hitherto
(
translations
excepted
)
deliuered
vnto
vs
any
such
notable
volume
,
as
haue
bene
by
Poets
of
antiquitie
,
left
vnto
the
posteritie
.
And
the
more
pitie
,
that
amongst
so
many
toward
wittes
no
one
hath
bene
hitherto
encouraged
to
followe
the
trace
of
that
worthy
and
famous
Knight
Sir
Geffrey
Chaucer
,
and
after
many
pretie
deuises
spent
in
youth
,
for
the
obtayning
a
worthles
victorie
,
might
consume
and
consummate
his
age
in
discribing
the
right
pathway
to
perfect
felicitie
,
with
the
due
preseruation
of
the
same
.
The
which
although
some
may
iudge
ouer
graue
a
subiect
to
be
handled
in
stile
metrical
,
yet
for
that
I
haue
found
in
the
verses
of
eloquent
Latinists
,
learned
Gréekes
,
&
pleasant
Italians
▪
sundrie
directions
,
whereby
a
man
may
be
guided
toward
th
attayning
of
that
vnspeakeable
treasure
,
I
haue
thus
farre
lamented
,
that
our
countreymen
,
haue
chosen
rather
to
winne
a
passouer
praise
by
the
wanton
penning
of
a
few
louing
layes
,
than
to
gayne
immortall
fame
,
by
the
Clarkely
handlinge
of
so
profitable
a
Theame
.
For
if
quicknes
of
inuencion
,
proper
vocables
,
apt
Epythetes
,
and
store
of
monasillables
may
help
a
pleasant
brayne
to
be
crowned
with
Lawrell
.
I
doubt
not
but
both
our
countreymen
&
coun●rie
language
might
be
entronised
amonge
the
olde
foreleaders
vnto
the
mount
Helicon
.
But
nowe
let
mée
returne
to
my
first
purpose
,
for
I
haue
wandred
somwhat
beside
the
path
,
and
yet
not
cleane
out
of
the
way
.
I
haue
thoug●t
good
(
I
say
)
to
present
you
with
this
writtē
booke
,
wherein
you
shall
find
a
number
of
Sonets
▪
layes
,
letters
,
Ballades
,
Rondlets
,
verlayes
and
verses
,
the
workes
of
your
friend
and
myne
Master
F.
I.
and
diuers
others
,
the
which
when
I
had
with
long
trauayle
confusedly
gathered
together
,
I
thought
it
then
Opere
precium
,
to
reduce
them
into
some
good
order
.
The
which
I
haue
done
according
to
my
barreyne
skill
in
this
written
Booke
,
commending
it
vnto
you
to
read
and
to
peruse
,
and
desiring
you
as
I
onely
do
aduenture
thus
to
participate
the
sight
therof
vnto
your
former
good
will
,
euen
so
that
you
will
by
no
meanes
make
the
same
common
:
but
after
your
owne
recreation
taken
therin
that
you
wil
safely
redeliuer
vnto
me
the
originall
copie
.
For
otherwise
I
shall
not
onely
prouoke
all
the
aucthors
to
be
offended
with
mée
,
but
further
shall
léese
the
opertunitie
of
a
greater
matter
,
halfe
and
more
graunted
vnto
mée
alreadie
,
by
the
willing
consent
of
one
of
them
.
And
to
be
playne
(
with
you
my
friend
)
he
hath
written
(
which
as
farre
as
I
can
learne
)
did
neuer
yet
come
to
the
reading
or
perusinge
of
any
man
but
himselfe
:
two
notable
workes
.
The
one
called
,
the
Sundry
lots
of
loue
.
The
other
of
his
owne
inuencion
entituled
.
The
clyming
of
an
Eagles
neast
.
These
thinges
(
and
especially
the
later
)
doth
séeme
by
the
name
to
be
a
work
worthy
the
reading
.
And
the
rather
I
iudge
so
because
his
fantasie
is
so
occupied
in
the
same
,
as
that
contrary
to
his
wonted
vse
,
he
hath
hitherto
withhelde
it
from
sight
of
any
his
fa●iliers
,
vntill
it
be
finished
,
you
may
gesse
him
by
his
Nature
.
And
therfore
I
requier
your
secresie
herein
,
least
if
he
hear
the
contrary
,
we
shall
not
be
able
by
any
meanes
to
procure
these
other
at
his
handes
.
So
fare
you
wel
,
from
my
Chamber
this
tenth
of
August
.
1572.
Youres
or
not
his
owne
.
G.
T.
WHen
I
had
with
no
small
entreatie
obteyned
of
Master
F.
I.
and
sundry
other
toward
young
gentlemen
,
the
sundry
copies
of
these
sundry
matters
,
then
aswell
for
that
the
number
of
them
was
great
,
as
also
for
that
I
found
none
of
them
,
so
barreyne
,
but
that
(
in
my
iudgmēt
)
had
in
it
Aliquid
Salis
,
and
especially
being
considered
by
the
very
proper
occasion
whereuppon
it
was
written
(
as
they
them selues
did
alwayes
with
the
verse
reherse
vnto
me
the
cause
that
then
moued
them
to
write
)
I
did
with
more
labour
gather
them
into
some
order
,
and
so
placed
them
in
this
register
.
Wherein
as
neare
as
I
could
gesse
,
I
haue
set
in
the
first
places
those
which
Master
.
F.
I.
did
compyle
.
And
to
begin
with
this
his
history
that
ensueth
,
it
was
(
as
he
declared
vnto
me
)
written
vppon
this
occasiō
.
The
said
F.
I.
chaunced
once
in
the
north
partes
of
this
Realme
to
fall
in
company
of
a
very
fayre
gentlewoman
whose
name
was
Mistresse
Elinor
,
vnto
whom
bearinge
a
hotte
affection
,
he
first
aduentured
to
write
this
letter
following
.
G.
T.
MIstresse
I
pray
you
vnderstand
that
being
altogether
a
straunger
in
these
parties
,
my
good
hap
hath
bene
to
behold
you
to
my
(
no
small
)
contentation
,
and
my
euill
happ
accompanies
the
same
,
with
such
imperfection
of
my
deserts
,
as
that
I
finde
alwayes
a
readie
repulse
in
mine
owne
frowardnes
.
So
that
consideringe
the
naturall
clymate
of
the
countrie
,
I
must
say
that
I
haue
found
fire
in
frost
.
And
yet
comparing
the
inequalitie
of
my
deserts
,
with
the
least
part
of
your
worthines
,
I
feele
a
continuall
frost
,
in
my
most
feruent
fire
.
Such
is
then
th
extremitie
of
my
passions
,
the
which
I
could
neuer
haue
bene
content
to
committe
vnto
this
telltale
paper
,
weare
it
not
that
I
am
destitute
of
all
other
helpe
.
Accept
therfore
I
beseeke
you
,
the
earnest
good
will
of
a
more
trustie
(
than
worthy
)
seruaunt
,
who
being
therby
encouraged
,
may
supplie
the
defects
of
his
abilitie
with
readie
triall
of
duetifull
loyalty
.
And
let
this
poore
paper
(
besprent
with
salt
teares
,
and
blowen
ouer
with
skalding
sighes
)
be
saued
of
you
as
a
safe
garde
for
your
sampler
,
or
a
bottome
to
wind
your
sowing
silke
,
that
when
your
last
nedelfull
is
wrought
,
you
maye
returne
to
readinge
therof
and
consider
the
care
of
hym
who
is
More
youres
than
his
owne
.
F.
I.
THis
letter
by
hir
receiued
(
as
I
haue
hard
him
say
)
hir
answere
was
this
:
She
toke
occasion
one
daye
,
at
his
request
to
daunce
with
him
,
the
which
doinge
,
she
bashfully
began
to
declare
vnto
him
,
that
she
had
read
ouer
the
writinge
,
which
he
deliuered
vnto
hir
,
with
like
protestation
,
that
(
as
at
deliuerie
therof
,
she
vnderstode
not
for
what
cause
he
thrust
the
same
into
hir
bosome
,
)
so
now
she
coulde
not
perceyue
therby
any
part
of
his
meaning
,
neuerthelesse
at
last
semed
to
take
vppon
hi
the
matte
and
though
she
disabled
hir selfe
,
yet
gaue
him
thankes
as
&c
.
Wheruppon
he
brake
the
braule
,
and
walkinge
abrode
deuised
immediatly
these
fewe
verses
followinge
.
G.
T.
FA●●e
Bersabe
the
bright
once
bathing
in
a
Well
,
With
d●awe
bedimmd
King
Dauids
eyes
that
ruled
Israell
.
And
Salomon
him selfe
,
the
source
of
sapience
,
Against
the
force
of
such
assaultes
could
make
but
small
defēce
:
To
it
the
stoutest
yeeld
,
and
strongest
feele
like
woo
,
Bold
Hercules
and
Sampson
both
,
did
proue
it
to
be
so
.
What
wonder
seemeth
then
?
when
starres
stand
thicke
in
skies
,
If
such
a
blasing
starre
haue
power
to
dim
my
dazled
eyes
?
Lenuoie
.
To
you
these
fewe
suffise
,
your
wittes
be
quicke
and
good
,
You
can
coniect
by
chaunge
of
hew
,
what
humors
feede
my
blood
.
F.
I.
I
Haue
heard
the
Aucthor
saye
,
that
these
were
the
first
verses
that
euer
he
wrote
vppon
like
occasion
.
The
which
cōsidering
the
matter
precedent
,
may
in
my
iudgement
be
well
allowed
,
and
to
iudge
his
doings
by
the
effectes
he
declared
vnto
me
,
that
before
he
coulde
put
the
same
in
legible
writinge
,
it
pleased
the
sayd
Mystresse
Elinor
of
hir
curtesie
thus
to
deale
with
him
.
Walking
in
a
garden
among
diuers
other
gentlemen
&
gentlewomen
,
with
a
little
frowning
smyle
in
passing
by
him
,
she
deliuered
vnto
him
a
paper
,
with
these
words
.
For
that
I
vnderstand
not
(
quoth
shee
)
th'
intent
of
your
letters
,
I
pray
you
take
them
here
againe
,
and
bestow
them
at
your
pleasure
.
The
which
done
and
sayde
,
shée
passed
by
without
change
either
of
pace
or
countenaunce
.
F.
I.
somewhat
troubled
with
her
angrie
looke
,
did
sodenly
leaue
the
companie
,
&
walking
into
a
parke
neare
adioyning
,
in
great
rage
began
to
wreake
his
mallice
on
this
poore
paper
,
and
he
same
did
rend
and
teare
in
péeces
.
When
sodenly
at
a
glaunce
he
perceaued
it
was
not
of
his
owne
hande
writing
,
and
therewithall
abashed
,
vppon
better
regard
he
perceyued
in
one
péece
therof
written
(
in
Romaine
)
these
letters
S
H
E
:
wherefore
placing
all
the
péeces
therof
,
as
orderly
as
he
could
,
he
found
therin
written
,
these
fewe
lynes
hereafter
followinge
.
G.
T.
YOur
sodeyn
departure
,
from
our
pastime
yesterday
,
did
enforce
me
for
lacke
of
chosen
cōpany
to
return
vnto
my
worke
,
wherein
I
did
so
long
continew
,
till
at
the
last
the
bare
bottome
did
drawe
vnto
my
remembraunce
your
straunge
request
.
And
although
I
founde
therin
no
iust
cause
to
credite
your
coulored
woordes
,
yet
haue
I
thought
good
hereby
to
requite
you
with
like
curtesie
,
so
that
at
least
you
shall
not
condemne
me
for
vngratefull
.
But
as
to
the
matter
therin
conteyned
,
if
I
could
perswade
my selfe
,
that
there
were
in
mee
any
coales
to
kyndle
such
sparkes
of
fire
,
I
might
yet
peraduenture
bee
drawen
to
beleue
that
your
minde
were
frosen
with
like
feare
.
But
as
no
smoke
ariseth
,
where
no
cole
is
kindled
,
so
without
cause
of
affection
the
passion
is
easie
to
be
cured
.
This
is
all
that
I
vnderstand
of
your
darke
letters
.
And
as
much
as
I
meane
to
aunsweare
.
S
H
E.
MY
friend
F.
I.
hath
tolde
me
diuers
times
,
that
imediatly
vppon
receit
hereof
,
he
grew
in
ielosy
,
that
the
same
was
not
her
owne
deuise
.
And
ther
in
I
haue
no
lesse
allowed
his
iudgment
,
then
cōmended
his
inuention
of
the
verses
,
and
letters
before
rehersed
.
For
as
by
the
stile
this
letter
of
hirs
bewrayeth
that
it
was
not
penned
by
a
womans
capacitie
,
so
the
sequell
of
hir
doings
may
discipher
,
that
she
had
me
ready
clearkes
then
trustie
seruants
in
store
.
Well
yet
as
the
perfect
hound
,
when
he
hath
chased
the
hurt
deere
,
amidde
the
whole
heard
,
wil
neuer
giue
ouer
till
he
haue
singled
it
againe
.
Euen
so
F.
I.
though
somewhat
abashed
with
this
doubtfull
shewe
,
yet
still
constant
in
his
former
intention
,
ceased
not
by
all
possible
meanes
,
to
bringe
this
Déere
yet
once
agayne
to
the
Bowes
,
wherby
she
might
be
the
more
surely
stryken
:
and
so
in
the
end
enforced
to
yeeld
.
Wherfore
he
thought
not
best
to
commit
the
sayde
verses
willingly
into
hir
custodie
,
but
priuily
lost
them
in
hir
chamber
,
written
in
counterfeit
.
And
after
on
the
next
day
thought
better
to
replie
,
either
vpon
hir
,
or
vppon
hir
Secretary
in
this
wyse
as
here
followeth
.
G.
T.
THE
much
that
you
haue
answered
is
very
much
,
and
much
more
than
I
am
able
to
replye
vnto
:
neuerthelesse
in
myne
owne
defence
,
thus
I
alleage
:
that
if
my
sodein
departure
pleased
not
you
,
I
cannot
my selfe
therwith
be
pleased
,
as
one
that
seeketh
not
to
please
many
,
and
more
disirous
to
please
you
then
any
.
The
cause
of
myne
affection
,
I
suppose
you
behold
dayly
.
For
(
self
loue
auoyded
)
euery
wight
may
iudge
of
themselues
as
much
as
reason
perswadeth
:
the
which
if
it
be
in
your
good
nature
suppressed
with
bashfulnes
,
then
mighty
loue
graunt
,
you
may
once
behold
my
wan
cheekes
wasshed
in
woe
,
that
therein
my
salt
teares
may
be
a
myrrour
to
represent
your
owne
shadow
,
and
that
like
vnto
Narcissus
you
may
bee
constrayned
to
kisse
the
cold
waues
,
wherein
your
coūterfait
is
so
liuely
portrayed
.
For
if
aboundance
of
other
matters
fayled
to
drawe
my
gazing
eyes
in
contemplacion
of
so
rare
excellency
,
yet
might
these
your
letters
both
frame
in
me
an
admiration
of
such
diuine
esprit
,
and
a
confusion
to
my
dull
vnderstanding
,
which
so
rashly
presumed
to
wander
in
this
endles
Laberinthe
.
Such
I
esteeme
you
,
and
thereby
am
become
such
,
and
Euen
.
HE.
F.I.
THis
letter
finished
and
fayre
written
ouer
,
his
chaūce
was
to
méete
hir
alone
in
a
Gallery
of
the
same
house
:
where
(
as
I
haue
heard
him
declare
)
his
manhood
in
this
kind
of
combat
was
first
tryed
,
and
therein
I
can
compare
him
to
a
valiant
Prince
,
who
distressed
with
power
of
enemies
had
committed
the
safegard
of
his
person
to
treaty
of
Ambassade
,
and
sodenly
(
surprised
with
a
Camnassado
in
his
own
trenches
)
was
enforced
to
yéeld
as
prisoner
.
Euen
so
my
friend
F.I.
lately
ouercome
by
the
beautifull
beames
of
this
Dame
Elynor
,
and
hauing
now
cōmitted
his
most
secrete
intent
to
these
late
rehearsed
letters
,
was
at
vnwares
encountred
with
his
friendly
foe
,
and
constrayned
either
to
prepare
some
new
defence
,
or
else
like
a
recreant
to
yéeld
himself
as
already
vāquished
.
Wherfore
(
as
in
a
traunce
)
he
lifted
vp
his
dazled
eyes
,
&
so
continued
in
a
certen
kind
of
admiration
,
not
vnlike
the
Astronomer
,
who
(
hauing
after
a
whole
nights
trauayle
,
in
grey
morning
found
his
desired
starre
)
hath
fixed
his
hungry
eies
to
behold
the
Comete
long
looked
for
:
wherat
this
gracious
Dame
(
as
one
that
could
discerne
the
sun
before
hir
chāber
windowes
were
wide
opē
)
did
deign
to
embolden
the
feinting
with
these
or
like
words
.
I
perceiue
now
(
quod
she
)
how
mishap
doth
follow
me
,
that
hauing
chosen
this
walke
for
a
simple
solace
,
I
am
here
disquieted
by
the
man
that
meaneth
my
distructiō
▪
&
therwithal
,
as
half
angry
,
began
to
turne
hir
back
,
when
as
my
friend
F.I.
now
awaked
,
gan
thus
salute
hir
.
Mystres
(
quod
he
)
and
I
perceiue
now
,
that
good
hap
haūts
me
,
for
being
by
lack
of
oportunitie
constreined
to
cōmit
my
welfare
vnto
these
blabbing
leaues
of
bewraying
pape
(
shewing
that
in
his
hand
)
I
am
here
recōforted
with
happy
view
of
my
desired
ioye
,
&
therewithall
reuerētly
kissing
his
hand
,
did
softly
distreine
hir
slender
arme
&
so
stayed
hir
departure
.
The
first
blow
thus
profered
&
defended
,
they
walked
&
talked
trauersing
diuers
wayes
,
wherein
I
doubt
not
but
that
my
friend
.
F.I.
could
quit
himself
resonably
well
.
And
though
it
stood
not
with
duty
of
a
friend
that
I
should
therin
require
to
know
hir
secrets
,
yet
of
him self
he
declared
thus
much
,
that
after
long
talke
shée
was
contented
to
accept
his
proferd
seruice
,
but
yet
still
disabling
hir self
,
and
séeming
to
maruell
what
cause
had
moued
him
to
subiect
his
libertie
so
wilfully
,
or
at
least
in
a
prison
(
as
she
termed
it
)
so
vnworthy
.
Whereunto
I
néede
not
rehearse
his
answere
,
but
suppose
now
,
that
thus
they
departed
:
sauing
I
had
forgotten
this
,
shée
required
of
him
the
last
rehearsed
letter
,
saying
that
his
frist
was
lost
,
&
now
she
lacked
a
new
bottome
for
hir
silke
,
the
which
I
warrāt
you
,
he
graūted
:
and
so
profering
to
take
an
humble
congé
by
Bezo
las
manos
,
shée
graciously
gaue
him
the
zuccado
dez
labros
:
and
so
for
then
departed
.
And
therupō
recōpting
hir
words
,
he
cōpyled
these
following
,
which
he
termed
Terza
sequenza
,
to
swéet
Mystres
SHE
.
G.
T.
OF
thee
deare
Dame
,
three
lessons
would
I
learne
,
What
reason
first
persuades
the
foolish
Fly
(
As
soone
as
shee
a
candle
can
discerne
)
To
play
with
flame
,
till
shee
bee
burnt
thereby
?
Or
what
may
moue
the
Mouse
to
byte
the
bayte
Which
strykes
the
trappe
,
that
stops
hir
hungry
breth
?
What
calles
the
Byrd
,
where
snares
of
deepe
deceit
Are
closely
caught
to
draw
hir
to
hir
death
?
Consider
well
,
what
is
the
cause
of
this
.
And
though
percase
thou
wilt
not
so
confesse
,
Yet
deepe
desire
,
to
gayne
a
heauenly
blisse
,
May
drowne
the
mynd
in
dole
and
darke
distresse
:
Oft
is
it
seene
(
whereat
my
hart
may
bleede
)
Fooles
playe
so
long
till
they
be
caught
in
deed
.
And
then
It
is
a
heauen
to
see
them
hop
and
skip
,
And
seeke
all
shiftes
to
shake
their
shackles
of
:
It
is
a
world
,
to
see
them
hang
the
lip
.
Who
(
earst
)
at
loue
,
were
w●nt
to
skorne
and
skof
.
But
as
the
Mouse
,
once
caught
in
crafty
trap
,
May
bounce
and
beate
,
agaynst
the
boorden
wall
,
Till
shee
haue
brought
hir
head
in
such
mishape
,
That
doune
to
death
hir
fainting
lymbes
must
fall
:
And
as
the
Flye
once
singed
in
the
flame
,
Cannot
commaund
hir
wings
to
waue
away
:
But
by
the
heele
,
shee
hangeth
in
the
same
Till
cruell
death
hir
hasty
iourney
stay
.
So
they
that
seeke
to
breake
the
linkes
of
loue
Stryue
with
the
streame
,
and
this
by
payne
I
prou●
.
For
when
I
first
beheld
that
heauenly
hewe
of
thyne
,
Thy
stately
stature
,
and
thy
comly
grace
,
I
must
confesse
these
dazled
eyes
of
myne
Did
wincke
for
feare
,
when
I
first
viewd
thy
face
But
bold
desire
,
did
open
them
agayne
,
And
bad
mee
looke
till
I
had
lookt
to
long
,
I
pitied
them
that
did
procure
my
payne
,
And
lou'd
the
lookes
that
wrought
me
all
the
wrong
:
And
as
the
Byrd
once
caught
(
but
woorks
her
woe
)
That
stryues
to
leaue
the
lymed
winges
behind
:
Euen
so
the
more
I
straue
to
parte
thee
fro
,
The
greater
grief
did
growe
within
my
minde
:
Remediles
then
must
I
yeeld
to
thee
,
And
craue
no
more
,
thy
seruaunt
but
to
bee
Tyll
then
and
euer
.
HE.
F.
I.
WHen
he
had
wel
sorted
this
sequence
,
he
sought
oportunitie
to
leaue
it
where
she
might
finde
it
before
it
were
lost
.
And
now
the
coles
begā
to
kindle
,
wherof
(
but
ere
whyle
)
she
feig●ed
hir self
altogither
ignorant
.
The
flames
began
to
break
out
on
euery
syde
:
&
she
to
quench
them
,
shut
vp
hir selfe
in
hir
chamber
solitarely
.
But
as
the
smithie
gathers
greater
heat
by
casting
on
of
water
,
euen
so
the
more
she
absented
hir self
from
company
,
the
fresher
was
the
grief
which
galded
hir
remembrance
:
so
that
at
last
the
report
was
spred
thorough
the
house
,
that
Mystres
Elinor
was
sicke
.
At
which
newes
F.
I.
tooke
small
comfort
:
neuerthelesse
Dame
Venus
with
good
aspect
dyd
yet
thus
much
furder
his
enterprise
.
The
Dame
(
whether
it
were
by
sodain
chaunge
,
or
of
wonted
custome
)
fell
one
day
into
a
great
bléeding
at
the
nose
.
For
which
accident
the
said
F.
I.
amongst
other
prety
cōceits
,
hath
a
present
remedy
,
wherby
he
tooke
occasion
(
when
they
of
the
house
had
all
in
vayne
sought
many
ways
to
stop
hir
bléeding
)
to
worke
his
feate
in
this
wyse
:
First
he
pleaded
ignorance
,
as
though
he
knewe
not
hir
name
,
and
therefore
demaunded
the
same
of
one
other
Gentlewomā
in
the
house
,
whose
name
was
Mistres
Frances
,
who
when
shée
had
to
him
declared
that
hir
name
was
Elinor
,
hée
said
these
wordes
or
very
lyke
in
effect
:
If
I
thought
I
should
not
offend
Mystres
Elynor
,
I
would
not
doubt
to
stop
hir
bléeding
,
without
eyther
payne
or
difficulty
.
This
gentlewoman
somewhat
tyckled
wyth
hys
words
,
did
incontinent
make
relacion
thereof
to
the
sayd
Mystres
Elynor
,
who
immediately
(
declaring
that
F.
I.
was
hir
late
receyued
seruaunt
)
returned
the
sayd
messanger
vnto
him
with
especiall
charge
,
that
hée
shoulde
employ
his
de●oyre
towards
the
recouery
of
hir
health
,
with
whom
the
same
F.
I.
repayred
to
the
chamber
of
his
desired
:
and
finding
hir
sette
in
a
chayre
,
leaning
on
the
one
side
ouer
a
siluer
bason
:
After
his
due
reuereuce
,
hée
layd
his
hand
on
hir
temples
,
and
priuily
rounding
hir
in
hir
eare
,
desired
hir
to
commaund
a
Hazell
sticke
and
a
knyfe
:
the
which
being
brought
,
hée
deliuered
vnto
hir
,
saying
on
this
wyse
.
Mystres
I
wil
speak
certen
words
in
secret
to
my selfe
,
and
doe
require
no
more
:
but
when
you
heare
me
saie
openly
this
word
Amen
,
that
you
with
this
knyfe
will
make
a
nycke
vppon
this
hasell
stycke
:
and
when
you
haue
made
fyue
nickes
,
commaunde
mée
also
to
cease
.
The
Dame
partly
of
good
wil
to
the
knight
,
and
partly
to
be
stenched
of
hir
bléeding
,
commaunded
hir
mayd
,
and
required
the
other
gentils
,
somewhat
to
stand
asyde
,
which
done
,
he
began
his
oraisons
,
wherein
he
had
not
long
muttered
before
he
pronounced
Amen
,
wherewith
the
Lady
made
a
nyck
on
the
stick
with
hir
knyfe
.
The
said
F.
I.
continued
to
an
other
Amen
,
when
the
Lady
hauing
made
an
other
nyck
felt
hir
bléeding
,
began
to
steynch
:
and
so
by
the
third
Amen
throughly
steinched
.
F.
I.
then
chaunging
his
prayers
into
priuate
talk
,
said
softly
vnto
hir
.
Mystres
,
I
am
glad
that
I
am
hereby
enabled
to
do
you
some
seruice
,
and
as
the
staunching
of
your
own
bloud
may
some
way
recōfort
you
,
so
if
the
shedding
of
my
bloud
may
any
way
content
you
,
I
beséech
you
commaund
it
,
for
it
shal
be
euermore
readily
employed
in
your
seruice
,
and
therwithal
with
a
loud
voyce
pronounced
Amen
:
wherwith
the
good
Lady
making
a
nyck
did
secretly
answere
thus
.
Good
seruaunt
(
quod
shée
)
I
must
néeds
think
my self
right
happy
to
haue
gained
your
seruice
and
good
will
,
and
be
you
sure
,
that
although
ther
be
in
me
no
such
desert
as
may
draw
you
into
this
depth
of
affection
,
yet
such
as
I
am
,
I
shal
be
alwayes
glad
to
shewe
my self
thankfull
vnto
you
,
and
now
,
if
you
think
your self
assured
,
that
I
shall
bléede
no
more
,
doe
thē
prononce
your
fifth
Amen
,
the
which
pronounced
,
shée
made
also
hir
fifth
nicke
,
and
held
vp
hir
head
,
calling
the
company
vnto
hir
,
and
declaring
vnto
them
,
that
hir
bléeding
was
throughly
steinched
.
Well
,
it
were
long
to
tell
,
what
sundry
opinions
were
pronounced
vpon
this
acte
,
and
I
doe
dwell
ouerlong
in
the
discourses
of
this
F.
I.
especially
hauing
taken
in
hand
only
to
copie
out
his
verses
,
but
for
the
circumstāce
doth
better
declare
the
effect
,
I
will
returne
to
my
former
tale
.
F.
I.
tarying
a
while
in
the
chamber
found
oportunitie
to
loose
his
sequence
néere
to
his
desired
Mistres
:
And
after
congé
taken
departed
.
After
whose
departuer
the
Lady
arose
out
of
hir
chayre
,
&
hir
mayd
going
about
to
remoue
the
same
,
espied
,
&
tooke
vp
the
writing
:
the
which
hir
mistres
perceiuing
,
gan
sodenly
cōiecture
that
the
same
had
in
it
some
like
matter
to
the
verses
once
before
left
in
like
maner
,
&
made
semblāt
to
mistrust
that
the
same
shuld
be
some
words
of
cōiuration
:
and
taking
it
frō
hir
mayd
,
did
peruse
it
,
&
immediatly
said
to
the
cōpany
,
that
she
would
not
forgo
the
same
for
a
great
treasure
.
But
to
be
plain
,
I
think
that
(
F.
I.
excepted
)
she
was
glad
to
be
rid
of
all
cōpany
,
vntill
shée
had
with
sufficient
leasure
turned
ouer
&
retossed
euery
card
in
this
sequēce
.
And
not
long
after
being
now
tickled
thorough
all
the
vaines
with
an
vnknown
humour
,
aduentured
of
hir self
to
cōmit
vnto
a
like
Ambassadour
the
discyphring
of
that
which
hitherto
she
had
kept
more
secret
,
&
therupō
wrot
with
hir
own
hand
&
head
in
this
wyse
.
G.
T.
GOod
seruant
,
I
am
out
of
al
doubt
much
beholding
vnto
you
,
and
I
haue
great
comfort
by
your
meanes
in
the
steinching
of
my
bloud
,
and
I
take
great
cōfort
to
reade
your
letters
,
and
I
haue
found
in
my
chamber
diuers
songs
which
I
think
to
be
of
your
making
,
and
I
promise
you
,
they
are
excellently
made
,
I
assure
you
that
I
wil
be
ready
to
doe
for
you
any
pleasure
that
I
can
,
during
my
lyfe
:
wherefore
I
pray
you
come
to
my
chamber
once
in
a
day
,
till
I
come
abroad
again
,
and
I
wil
be
glad
of
your
company
,
and
for
because
that
you
haue
promised
to
bee
my
HE
:
I
will
take
vpon
me
this
name
,
your
SHE
.
THis
letter
I
haue
séene
,
of
hir
own
hand
writing
:
and
as
therin
the
Reader
may
finde
great
difference
of
Style
,
from
hir
former
letter
,
so
may
you
nowe
vnderstand
the
casue
.
Shée
had
in
the
same
house
a
friend
,
a
seruaunt
,
a
Secretary
:
what
should
I
name
him
?
such
one
as
shée
estéemed
in
time
past
more
than
was
cause
in
tyme
present
,
and
to
make
my
tale
good
,
I
will
(
by
report
of
my
very
good
friend
F.
I.
)
discribe
him
vnto
you
.
Hée
was
in
height
,
the
proportion
of
twoo
Pigmeys
,
in
bredth
the
thicknesse
of
two
bacon
hogges
,
of
presumption
a
Gyant
,
of
power
a
Gnat
,
Apishly
wytted
,
Knauishly
mannerd
,
&
crabbedly
fauord
,
what
was
there
in
him
then
to
drawe
a
fayre
Ladies
liking
?
Marry
sir
euen
all
in
all
,
a
well
lyned
pursse
,
wherwith
he
could
at
euery
call
,
prouide
such
pretie
conceytes
as
pleased
hir
péeuish
fantasie
,
and
by
that
meanes
he
had
throughly
(
long
before
)
insinuated
him selfe
with
this
amorous
dame
.
This
manling
,
this
minion
,
this
slaue
,
this
secretary
,
was
nowe
by
occasion
rydden
to
London
forsothe
:
and
though
his
absence
were
vnto
hir
a
disfurnishing
of
eloquence
:
it
was
yet
vnto
F.
I.
an
opertunitie
of
good
aduaūtage
,
for
when
he
perceiued
the
change
of
hir
stile
,
and
therby
grew
in
some
suspicion
that
the
same
proceded
by
absence
of
hir
chiefe
Chauncellor
,
he
thought
good
now
to
smyte
while
the
yron
was
hotte
,
and
to
lend
his
Mistresse
such
a
penne
in
hir
Secretaries
absence
,
as
he
should
neuer
be
able
at
his
returne
to
amende
the
well
writing
thereof
,
wherfore
according
to
hir
commaund
he
repayred
once
euery
daye
to
hir
chamber
,
at
the
least
,
whereas
he
guided
him selfe
so
wel
,
and
could
deuise
such
store
of
sundry
pleasure
and
pastymes
,
that
he
grew
in
fauour
not
onely
with
his
desired
,
but
also
with
the
rest
of
the
gentlewomen
.
And
one
daye
passing
the
time
amongst
them
,
their
playe
grew
to
this
end
,
that
his
Mistresse
,
being
Quéene
,
demaunded
of
him
these
thrée
questions
.
Seruaunt
(
quod
she
)
I
charge
you
,
aswell
vppon
your
allegiance
being
nowe
my
subiect
,
as
also
vppon
your
fidelitie
,
hauing
vowed
your
seruice
vnto
mée
that
you
aunswere
me
these
thrée
questions
,
by
the
very
truth
of
your
secret
thought
.
First
,
what
thing
in
this
vniuersall
world
doth
most
reioyce
and
comforte
you
?
F.
I.
abasing
his
eyes
towardes
the
ground
,
toke
good
aduisement
in
his
aunswere
,
when
a
fayre
gentlewoman
of
the
company
clapped
him
on
the
shoulder
,
saying
,
how
now
sir
,
is
your
hād
on
your
halfpeny
?
To
whom
he
aunswered
,
no
fayre
Lady
,
my
hand
is
on
my
harte
,
and
yet
my
hart
is
not
in
myne
owne
handes
:
wherewithall
abashed
turning
towardes
dame
Elinor
he
sayed
.
My
souereigne
&
Mistresse
,
according
to
the
charge
of
your
commaund
,
and
the
dutie
that
I
owe
you
,
my
tongue
shal
bewraye
vnto
you
the
truth
of
myne
intent
.
At
this
present
a
rewarde
giuen
me
without
desert
▪
doth
so
reioyce
mée
with
continuall
remembraunce
therof
,
that
though
my
mind
be
so
occupied
to
thinke
thereon
,
as
that
daye
nor
night
I
can
be
quiet
from
that
thought
,
yet
the
ioye
and
pleasure
which
I
conceiue
in
the
same
is
such
,
that
I
can
neither
be
cloyed
with
continuaunce
therof
,
nor
yet
afrayde
,
that
any
mishap
can
counteruayle
so
great
a
treasure
.
This
is
to
me
such
a
heauen
to
dwell
in
,
as
that
I
féede
by
day
,
and
repose
by
night
,
vpon
the
fresh
record
of
this
reward
,
this
(
as
he
sayeth
)
he
ment
by
the
kysse
that
she
lent
him
in
the
Gallery
,
and
by
the
profession
of
hir
last
letters
and
wordes
.
Well
,
though
this
aunswere
be
somewhat
mistie
,
yet
let
my
friendes
excuse
be
:
that
taken
vppon
the
sodeyne
he
thought
better
to
aunswere
darkely
,
then
to
be
mistrusted
openly
.
Hir
second
questiō
was
,
what
thing
in
this
life
did
moste
greue
his
harte
,
and
disquiet
his
mind
,
whereunto
he
answered
.
That
although
his
late
rehersed
ioye
were
incomparable
,
yet
the
greatest
enimie
that
disturbed
the
same
,
was
the
priuie
worme
of
his
owne
giltie
conscience
,
which
accused
him
euermore
with
great
vnworthinesse
:
and
that
this
was
his
greatest
grief
.
The
Lady
byting
vppon
the
bit
at
his
cunning
answeres
made
vnto
these
two
questions
,
gan
thus
replie
,
Seruant
,
I
had
thought
to
haue
touched
you
yet
nearer
with
my
third
question
,
but
I
will
refrayne
to
attempt
your
pacience
:
and
now
for
my
third
demaūd
,
aunswere
me
directly
in
what
manner
this
passion
doth
handle
you
?
and
howe
these
contraries
maye
hang
together
by
any
possibilitie
of
concorde
?
for
your
wordes
are
strauunge
.
F.
I.
now
rowsing
him selfe
boldly
toke
occasion
thus
to
handle
his
aunswere
.
Mistresse
(
quod
he
)
my
wordes
in
dede
are
straunge
,
but
yet
my
possion
is
is
much
straunger
,
and
theruppon
this
other
day
to
content
mine
owne
fātasie
I
deuised
a
Sonet
,
which
although
it
be
a
péece
of
Cocklorells
musicke
,
and
such
as
I
might
be
ashamed
to
publish
in
this
company
,
yet
because
my
truth
in
this
aunswere
may
the
better
appeare
vnto
you
,
I
pray
you
vouchsafe
to
receiue
the
same
in
writing
:
and
drawing
a
paper
out
of
his
packet
presented
it
vnto
hir
,
wherin
was
written
this
Sonet
.
G.
T.
LOue
,
hope
,
and
death
,
do
stirre
in
me
such
strife
,
As
neuer
man
but
I
led
such
a
life
.
First
burning
loue
doth
wound
my
hart
to
death
,
And
when
death
comes
at
call
of
inward
griefe
Colde
lingering
hope
,
doth
feede
my
fainting
breath
Against
my
will
,
and
yeeldes
my
wound
reliefe
:
So
that
I
liue
,
but
yet
my
life
is
such
,
As
death
would
neuer
greue
me
halfe
so
much
.
No
comfort
then
but
only
this
I
tast
,
To
salue
such
sore
,
such
hope
will
neuer
want
,
And
with
such
hope
,
such
life
will
euer
last
,
And
with
such
life
,
such
sorrowes
are
not
skant
.
Oh
straunge
desire
,
O
life
with
torments
tost
Through
too
much
hope
,
mine
onely
hope
is
lost
.
Euen
HE
F.
I.
THis
Sonet
was
highly
commended
,
and
in
my
iudgement
it
deserueth
no
lesse
,
I
haue
heard
F.
I.
saye
,
that
he
borowed
th'
inuentiun
of
an
Italian
:
but
were
it
a
translation
or
inuention
(
if
I
be
Iudge
)
it
is
both
prety
and
pithy
.
His
dutie
thus
perfourmed
,
their
pastimes
ended
,
and
at
their
departure
for
a
watch
worde
hée
counselled
his
Mistresse
by
little
and
little
to
walke
abrode
sayinge
that
the
Gallery
neare
adioyning
was
so
pleasaunt
,
as
if
he
were
halfe
dead
hée
thought
that
by
walking
therin
he
might
bée
halfe
and
more
reuiued
.
Think●
you
so
seruaunt
(
quod
she
?
)
and
the
last
tyme
that
I
walked
there
I
suppose
I
toke
the
cause
of
my
mallady
,
but
by
your
aduise
(
and
for
you
haue
●o
clerkly
steynched
my
bleeding
)
I
will
assaye
to
walke
there
to
morow
.
Mistres
quod
he
,
and
in
more
ful
accomplishment
of
my
duetie
towards
you
,
and
in
sure
hope
that
you
wil
vse
the
same
one
lie
to
your
owne
priuate
cōmoditie
,
wil
there
awaite
vppon
you
,
&
betwene
you
&
me
wil
teach
you
the
ful
order
how
to
steynch
the
bléeding
of
any
creature
,
wherby
you
shall
be
as
cuning
as
my selfe
.
Gramercy
good
seruaunt
,
qd
she
,
I
thinke
you
lost
the
same
in
writing
here
yesterday
,
but
I
cannot
vnderstand
it
,
and
therfore
to
morrowe
(
if
I
féele
my selfe
any
thing
amended
)
I
wil
send
for
you
thither
to
enstruct
me
throughly
:
thus
they
departed
.
And
at
supper
time
,
the
Knight
of
the
Castel
finding
fault
that
his
gestes
stomacke
serued
him
no
better
,
began
to
accuse
the
gro●enes
of
his
vyands
,
to
whom
one
of
the
gentlewomen
which
had
passed
the
afternoone
in
his
company
,
aunswered
.
Nay
sir
qd
she
,
this
gentleman
hath
a
passiō
,
the
which
once
once
in
a
daye
at
the
least
doth
kill
his
appetite
.
Are
you
so
well
acquainted
with
the
disposition
of
his
body
qd
the
Lord
of
the
house
?
by
his
owne
saying
,
qd
she
,
&
not
otherwise
.
Fayre
Ladie
qd
F.
I.
you
either
mistoke
me
or
ouerheard
me
then
,
for
I
told
of
a
comfortable
humor
which
so
●ed
me
with
continual
remēbrance
of
ioye
,
as
that
my
stomack
being
ful
therof
doth
desire
in
maner
none
other
vittayles
.
Why
sir
,
qd
the
host
,
do
you
then
liue
by
loue
?
God
forbid
Sir
quod
F.
I.
for
then
my
chéekes
wold
be
much
thinner
then
they
be
,
but
there
are
diuers
other
greater
causes
of
ioy
,
then
the
doubtful
lottes
of
loue
,
and
for
myne
owne
part
,
to
be
playne
,
I
cannot
loue
,
and
I
dare
not
hate
.
I
would
I
thought
so
,
quod
the
gentlewoman
.
And
thus
with
prety
nyppes
,
they
passed
ouer
their
supper
:
which
ended
,
the
Lord
of
the
house
require●
F.
I.
to
daunce
and
passe
the
tyme
with
the
gentlewoman
,
which
he
refused
not
to
doe
.
But
sodenly
,
before
the
musicke
was
well
tuned
,
came
out
Dame
Elynor
in
hir
night
attyre
,
and
said
to
the
Lord
,
that
(
supposing
the
solitarinesse
of
hir
chāber
had
encreased
hir
maladie
)
she
came
out
for
hir
better
recreaciō
to
sée
them
daūce
,
Wel
done
daughter
(
quod
the
Lord.
)
And
I
Mistres
(
quod
F.
I.
)
would
gladly
bestowe
the
leading
of
you
about
this
great
chamber
,
to
dryue
away
the
fayntnesse
of
your
feuer
.
No
good
seruaunt
,
quod
the
Lady
,
but
in
my
stéede
,
I
pray
you
daunce
with
this
fayre
Gentlewoman
,
pointing
him
to
the
Lady
that
had
so
taken
him
vp
at
supper
.
F.
I.
to
auoyde
mistrust
,
did
agrée
to
hir
request
without
furder
entreaty
.
The
daunce
begon
,
this
Knight
marched
on
with
the
Image
of
S.
Fraunces
in
his
hand
,
and
S.
Elynor
in
his
hart
.
The
violands
at
ende
of
the
pauion
staied
a
whyle
:
in
which
time
this
Dame
sayde
to
F.
I.
on
this
wyse
.
I
am
right
sorry
for
you
in
two
respects
,
although
the
familiarity
haue
hytherto
had
no
great
continuance
betwene
vs
:
and
as
I
do
lament
your
case
,
so
doo
I
reioyce
(
for
myne
own
contentation
)
that
I
shall
now
sée
a
due
triall
of
the
experiment
which
I
haue
long
desired
.
This
sayd
,
she
kept
silence
.
When
F.
I.
(
somewhat
astonied
with
hir
straunge
spéeche
)
thus
aunswered
:
Mystres
although
I
cannot
conceyue
the
meaning
of
your
wordes
,
yet
by
curtesy
I
am
constrayned
to
yeelde
you
thankes
for
your
good
will
,
the
which
appeareth
no
lesse
in
lamenting
of
mishaps
,
than
in
reioycing
at
good
fortune
.
What
experiment
you
meane
to
trye
by
mée
,
I
know
not
,
but
I
dare
assure
you
,
that
my
skill
in
experiments
is
very
simple
.
Herewith
the
Instruments
sounded
a
new
Measure
,
and
they
passed
forthwardes
leauing
to
talke
,
vntill
the
noyse
ceassed
:
which
done
,
the
gentlewoman
replied
.
I
am
sory
sir
,
that
you
did
erewhile
,
denie
loue
and
all
his
lawes
,
and
that
in
so
open
audience
.
Not
so
quod
F.
I.
but
as
the
word
was
roundly
taken
,
so
can
I
readely
aunswere
it
by
good
reason
.
Wel
quod
she
,
how
if
the
hearers
will
admit
no
reasonable
aunswere
?
My
reason
shall
yet
be
neuerthelesse
(
quod
he
)
in
reasonable
iudgement
.
Herewith
she
smyled
,
and
he
cast
a
glance
towardes
dame
Elinor
askances
art
thou
pleased
?
Againe
the
vyols
called
them
forthwardes
,
and
againe
at
the
end
of
the
braule
sayd
F.
I.
to
this
gentlewoman
:
I
pray
you
Mistres
,
and
what
may
be
the
second
cause
of
your
sorow
sustained
in
my
behalfe
?
Nay
soft
quod
she
,
percase
I
haue
not
yet
told
you
the
first
,
but
content
your selfe
,
for
the
second
cause
you
shall
neuer
know
at
my
handes
,
vntill
I
sée
due
trial
of
the
experiment
which
I
haue
long
desired
.
Why
then
(
quod
she
)
I
can
but
wish
a
present
occasion
to
bring
the
same
to
effect
,
to
the
end
that
I
might
also
vnderstād
the
mistery
of
your
meaning
.
And
so
might
you
fail
of
your
purpose
(
quod
she
)
for
I
meane
to
be
better
assured
of
him
that
shall
know
the
depth
of
mine
intent
in
such
a
secrete
,
than
I
do
suppose
that
any
creature
(
one
except
)
may
be
of
you
.
Gentlewomā
(
quod
he
)
you
speak
Greeke
,
the
which
I
haue
now
forgotten
,
and
myne
instructers
are
to
farre
from
mée
at
this
present
to
expound
your
words
.
Or
els
to
neare
(
quod
she
)
and
so
smiling
stayed
hir
talke
,
when
the
musick
called
them
to
another
daūce
.
Which
ended
,
F.
I.
halfe
afrayd
of
false
suspect
,
and
more
amazed
at
this
straunge
talke
,
gaue
ouer
,
and
bringing
Mistresse
Fraunces
to
hir
place
was
thus
saluted
by
his
Mistresse
.
Seruaunt
(
quod
she
)
I
hadde
done
you
great
wrong
to
haue
daunced
with
you
,
con●●dering
that
this
gentlewoman
and
you
had
former
occasion
of
so
waighty
conference
.
Mistresse
sayd
F.
I.
you
had
done
mée
great
pleasure
,
for
by
our
conference
I
haue
but
brought
my
braynes
in
a
busie
coniecture
.
I
doubt
not
(
sayd
his
Mistresse
)
but
you
wil
end
that
busines
easely
.
It
is
hard
said
F.
I.
to
end
the
thing
,
wherof
yet
I
haue
founde
no
beginning
.
His
Mistresse
with
change
of
countenaunce
kept
silence
,
whereat
dame
Fraunces
reioycing
,
cast
out
this
bone
to
gnawe
on
.
I
perceyue
(
quod
she
)
it
is
euill
to
halt
before
a
Creple
.
F.
I.
perceyuing
now
that
his
Mistresse
waxed
angry
thought
good
on
hir
behalfe
thus
to
aunswere
:
and
it
is
euill
to
hop
before
them
that
runne
for
the
Bell
:
his
Mistresse
replied
,
and
it
is
euill
to
hang
the
Bell
at
their
héeles
which
are
alwayes
running
.
The
L.
of
he
Castle
ouerhearing
these
proper
quippes
,
rose
out
of
his
chayre
,
and
comming
towards
F.
I.
required
him
to
daunce
a
Gallyard
.
Sir
sayd
F.
I.
I
haue
hitherto
at
your
apoyntment
but
walked
about
the
house
,
now
if
you
be
desirous
to
sée
one
tomble
a
turne
or
twayne
,
it
is
like
ynough
that
I
might
prouoke
you
to
laugh
at
mée
,
but
in
good
faith
my
dauncing
dayes
are
almost
done
,
and
therfore
sir
(
quod
he
)
I
pray
you
speake
to
them
that
are
more
nymble
at
tripping
on
the
toe
.
Whilest
hée
was
thus
saying
dame
Elynor
had
made
hir
Congey
,
and
was
now
entring
the
doore
of
hir
chamber
:
when
F.
I.
all
amazed
at
hir
sodeyne
departure
followed
to
take
leaue
of
his
Mistresse
:
but
she
more
then
angrie
,
refused
to
heare
his
good
night
,
and
entring
hir
chamber
caused
hir
mayde
to
clappe
the
doore
.
F.
I.
with
heauie
cheare
returned
to
his
company
,
and
Mistresse
Fraunces
to
toutch
his
sore
with
a
corosiue
sayd
to
him
softly
in
this
wise
.
Sir
you
may
now
perceyue
that
this
our
countrie
cannot
allowe
the
French
maner
of
dauncing
,
for
they
(
as
I
haue
heard
tell
)
do
more
commonly
daunce
to
talke
,
then
entreate
to
daunce
.
F.
I.
hoping
to
driue
out
one
nayle
with
another
,
and
thinking
this
a
meane
most
conuenient
to
suppresse
all
ielous
supposes
,
toke
Mistresse
Fraunces
by
the
hand●
and
with
a
heauie
smyle
aunswered
.
Mistresse
and
I
(
because
I
haue
séene
the
french
maner
of
dauncing
)
will
eftsones
entreat
you
to
daunce
a
Bargynet
:
what
meane
you
by
this
quod
Mistresse
Fraunces
.
If
it
please
you
to
followe
(
quod
he
)
you
shall
sée
that
I
can
iest
without
ioye
,
and
laugh
without
lust
,
and
calling
the
musitions
,
caused
them
softly
to
sound
the
Tyntarnell
,
when
he
clearing
his
voyce
did
Alla
Napolitana
applie
these
verses
following
,
vnto
the
measure
.
G.
T.
IN
prime
of
lustie
yeares
,
when
Cupid
caught
me
in
And
nature
taught
the
way
to
loue
,
how
I
might
best
begin
:
To
please
my
wandring
eye
,
in
beauties
tickle
trade
,
To
gaze
on
eche
that
passed
by
,
a
carelesse
sporte
I
made
.
With
sweete
entising
bayte
,
I
fisht
for
many
a
dame
,
And
warmed
me
by
many
a
fire
,
yet
felt
I
not
the
flame
:
But
when
at
last
I
spied
,
the
face
that
please
me
most
,
The
coales
were
quicke
,
the
wood
was
drie
,
&
I
began
to
tost●
.
And
smyling
yet
full
oft
,
I
haue
beheld
that
face
,
When
in
my
hart
I
might
bewayle
mine
owne
vnluckie
case
:
And
oft
againe
with
lokes
that
might
bewray
my
griefe
,
I
pleaded
hard
for
iust
reward
,
and
sought
to
find
reliefe
.
What
will
you
more
?
so
oft
,
my
gazing
eyes
did
seeke
To
see
the
Rose
and
Lilly
striue
vppon
that
liuely
cheeke
:
Till
at
the
last
I
spied
,
and
by
good
profe
I
found
,
That
in
that
face
was
paynted
playne
,
the
pearcer
of
my
woūd
.
Then
(
all
to
late
)
agast
,
I
did
my
foote
reitre
,
And
sought
with
secrete
sighes
to
quench
my
greedy
skalding
fire
:
But
lo
,
I
did
preuayle
asmuch
to
guide
my
will
,
As
he
that
seekes
with
halting
heele
,
to
hop
against
the
hill
.
Or
as
the
feeble
sight
,
would
serche
the
sunny
beame
,
Euen
so
I
found
but
labour
lost
,
to
striue
against
the
streame
.
Then
gan
I
thus
resolue
,
since
liking
forced
loue
,
Should
I
mislike
my
happie
choyce
,
before
I
did
it
proue
?
And
since
none
other
ioye
I
had
but
hir
to
see
,
Should
I
retire
my
deepe
desire
?
no
no
it
would
not
bee
:
Though
great
the
duetie
were
,
that
she
did
well
deserue
,
And
I
poore
man
,
vnworthy
am
so
worthy
a
wight
to
serue
,
Yet
hope
my
comfort
stayd
,
that
she
would
haue
regard
To
my
good
will
,
that
nothing
crau'd
,
but
like
for
iust
reward
:
I
see
the
Faucon
gent
sometimes
will
take
delight
,
To
seeke
the
sollace
of
hir
wing
,
and
dally
with
a
kite
.
The
fayrest
Woulf
will
chuse
the
foulest
for
hir
make
,
And
why
?
because
he
doth
endure
most
sorrowe
for
hir
sake
▪
Euen
so
had
I
like
hope
,
when
dolefull
dayes
were
spent
,
When
weary
wordes
were
wasted
well
,
to
open
true
entent
.
When
fluddes
of
flowing
teares
,
had
washt
my
weeping
eyes
,
When
trembling
tongue
had
troubled
hir
,
with
loude
lamenting
cries
:
At
last
hir
worthy
wil
would
pitie
this
my
playnt
,
And
comfort
me
hir
owne
poore
slaue
,
whom
feare
had
made
so
faint
.
Wherfore
I
made
a
vow
,
the
stonie
rocke
should
start
,
Ere
I
presume
,
to
let
hir
slippe
out
of
my
faithfull
hart
.
Lenuoie
.
And
when
she
sawe
by
proofe
,
the
pith
of
my
good
will
,
She
tooke
in
worth
this
simple
song
,
for
want
of
better
skill
.
And
as
my
iust
deserts
,
hir
gentle
hart
did
moue
,
She
was
content
to
answere
thus
:
I
am
content
to
loue
.
F.
I.
THese
verses
are
more
in
number
than
do
stand
with
contentation
of
some
iudgements
,
and
yit
the
occasiō
throughly
considered
,
I
can
commend
them
with
the
rest
,
for
it
is
(
as
may
be
well
fermed
)
continua
or
at
●o
▪
declaring
a
full
discourse
of
his
first
loue
:
wherin
(
ouer
and
besides
that
the
Epythetes
are
aptly
applied
,
&
the
verse
of
it self
pleasant
enough
)
I
note
that
by
it
he
ment
in
cloudes
to
discipher
vnto
Mistres
Fraunces
such
matter
as
she
wold
snatch
at
,
and
yit
could
take
no
good
hold
of
the
same
.
Furthermore
,
it
aunswered
very
aptly
to
the
note
which
the
musike
sounded
,
as
the
skilfull
reader
by
due
triall
may
approue
.
This
singing
daunce
,
or
daunsing
song
ended
,
Mistres
Fraunces
giuing
due
thanks
,
séemed
weary
also
of
the
company
,
and
profering
to
departe
,
gaue
yit
this
farewell
to
F.
I.
not
vexed
by
choller
,
but
pleased
with
contentation
,
and
called
away
by
heauy
sléepe
:
I
am
constreyned
(
quod
she
)
to
bid
you
good
night
,
and
so
turning
to
the
rest
of
the
company
,
tooke
hir
leaue
.
Then
the
Maister
of
the
house
commaunded
a
torch
to
light
F.
I.
to
his
lodging
,
where
(
as
I
haue
heard
him
saye
)
the
sodeyn
chaunge
of
his
Mistres
countenance
,
togither
with
the
straungenes
of
Mistresse
Fraunces
talke
,
made
such
an
encounter
in
his
mynde
,
that
he
could
take
no
reste
that
night
:
wherefore
in
the
morning
rysing
very
earely
(
although
it
were
farre
before
his
mistres
hower
)
he
rooled
his
choller
by
walking
in
the
Gallery
neare
to
hir
lodging
,
and
there
in
this
passion
compyled
these
vers●s
following
.
G.
T.
A
cloud
of
care
hath
coured
all
my
coste
,
And
stormes
of
stryfe
doo
threaten
to
appeare
:
The
waues
of
woo
,
which
I
mistrusted
moste
,
Haue
broke
the
bankes
wherein
my
lyfe
lay
cleere
:
Chippes
of
ill
chaunce
,
are
fallen
amyd
my
choyce
,
To
marre
the
mynd
,
that
ment
for
to
reioyce
.
Before
I
sought
,
I
found
the
hauen
of
hap
▪
Wherein
(
once
found
)
I
sought
to
shrowd
my
ship
,
But
lowring
loue
hath
lift
me
from
hir
lap
,
And
crabbed
lot
beginnes
to
hang
the
lip
:
The
droppes
of
dark
,
mistrust
do
fall
so
thick
,
They
pearce
my
coate
,
and
touch
my
skin
at
quick
▪
What
may
be
sayd
,
where
truth
cannot
preu●yl●
?
What
plea
may
serue
,
where
will
it selfe
is
Iudge
?
What
reason
rules
,
where
right
and
reason
fayle
?
●emediles
then
must
the
giltlesse
trudge
:
And
s●eke
out
care
,
to
be
the
caruing
knyfe
To
cut
the
thred
,
that
lingreth
such
a
lyfe
,
F.
I.
THis
is
but
a
rough
〈◊〉
,
and
reason
,
for
it
was
deuised
in
great
disquiet
of
mynd
,
and
written
〈◊〉
rage
,
yet
haue
I
séene
much
worse
passe
the
mustors
,
yea
and
where
both
the
Lieutenant
and
Prouost
Marshall
were
〈◊〉
of
rype
iudgement
:
and
as
it
is
,
I
pray
you
〈…〉
here
,
for
the
truth
is
that
F.
I.
himselfe
had
so
〈…〉
therin
,
that
he
neuer
presented
it
,
but
to
the
matter
.
Whē
he
had
long
(
and
all
in
vayn
)
looked
for
the
cōming
of
his
Mistres
into
hir
appointed
walk
:
he
wandred
into
the
park
néere
adioyning
to
the
Castle
wall
;
where
his
chaunce
was
to
méete
Mistresse
Fraunces
,
accompanied
with
one
other
Gentlewoman
,
by
whom
he
passed
with
a
reuerēce
of
curtesie
:
and
so
walking
on
,
came
into
the
side
of
a
thicket
▪
where
he
sat
down
vnder
a
trée
to
allay
his
sadnesse
with
solitarines
.
Mistres
Fraunces
,
partly
of
curtesie
and
affection
,
and
partly
to
content
hir
mind
by
continuance
of
such
talk
as
thei
had
commenced
ouer
night
,
entreated
hir
companion
to
goe
with
hir
vnto
this
trée
of
reformacion
,
whereas
they
found
the
Knight
with
his
armes
vnfolded
in
a
heauy
kind
of
contemplation
,
vnto
whom
Mistres
Fraunces
stepped
apace
,
(
right
softly
)
&
at
vnwares
gaue
this
salutation
.
I
little
thought
Syr
Knight
(
quod
she
)
by
your
euensong
yesternight
,
to
haue
found
you
presently
at
such
a
morrow
masse
,
but
I
perceiue
you
serue
your
Saint
with
double
deuotion
:
and
I
pray
God
graūt
you
treble
méede
for
your
true
intent
.
F.
I.
taken
thus
vpon
the
sodeine
,
could
none
otherwise
answer
but
thus
:
I
told
you
Mistresse
(
quod
he
)
that
I
could
laughe
without
lu●●
,
and
iest
without
ioye
:
and
there
withall
starting
vp
,
with
a
more
bolde
countenance
came
towardes
the
Dames
,
profering
vnto
them
his
seruice
,
to
wayte
vpon
thē
homewards
.
I
haue
heard
say
oft
times
(
qd
Mistres
Fraunces
)
that
it
is
hard
to
serue
two
Maisters
at
one
time
,
but
we
wil
be
right
glad
of
your
company
.
I
thank
you
(
quod
F.
I.
)
and
so
walking
on
with
them
,
fell
into
sundry
discourses
,
still
refusing
to
touch
any
part
of
their
former
communicacion
,
vntill
Mistresse
Frauuces
sayd
vnto
him
:
by
my
troth
(
quod
thée
)
I
would
bee
your
debtour
these
two
dayes
,
to
aunswer
me
truely
but
vnto
one
question
that
I
will
propound
:
fayre
Gentlewoman
(
quod
hée
)
you
shall
not
neede
to
becomme
my
debtour
,
but
if
it
please
you
to
quit
question
by
questiō
,
I
wil
be
more
ready
to
gratifie
you
in
this
request
,
than
either
reason
requireth
,
or
than
you
would
be
willing
to
worke
my
cōtentatiō
.
Master
F.
I.
(
qd
she
,
&
that
sadly
)
peraduētur
you
know
but
a
litle
how
willing
I
would
be
to
procure
your
contentation
,
but
you
know
that
hitherto
familiaritie
hath
taken
no
déepe
roote
betwixt
vs
twayne
.
And
though
I
find
in
you
no
maner
of
cause
whereby
I
might
doubt
to
commit
this
or
greater
matter
vnto
you
,
yit
haue
I
stayed
hitherto
so
to
doe
,
in
doubt
least
you
might
thereby
iustly
condempne
mée
both
of
arrogancy
and
lack
of
discretion
,
wherwith
I
must
yit
foolishly
affirm
,
that
I
haue
with
great
payne
brydeled
my
tonge
from
disclosing
the
same
vnto
you
.
Such
is
then
the
good
will
that
I
beare
towards
you
,
the
which
if
you
rather
iudge
to
bée
impudencie
,
than
a
friendly
meaning
,
I
may
then
curse
the
hower
that
I
first
concluded
thue
to
deale
with
you
:
herewithall
being
now
red
for
chaste
bashefulnesse
,
shée
abased
hir
eyes
,
and
stayed
hir
talke
,
to
whom
F.
I.
thus
aunswered
.
Mistresse
Fraunces
,
if
I
should
with
so
excéeding
villanie
requite
such
and
so
excéeding
courtesie
,
I
might
not
onely
séeme
to
digenerate
from
all
gentry
,
but
also
to
differ
in
behauiour
from
all
the
rest
of
my
lyfe
spent
:
wherefore
to
be
playne
with
you
in
few
wordes
,
I
thinke
my selfe
so
much
bound
vnto
you
for
diuers
respects
,
as
if
abilitie
doe
not
fayle
mée
,
you
shall
fynde
mée
myndfull
in
requitall
of
the
same
:
and
for
disclosing
your
mind
to
mée
,
you
may
if
so
please
you
aduenture
it
without
aduenture
,
for
by
this
Sunne
,
quod
hée
,
I
will
not
deceyue
such
trust
as
you
shall
lay
vppon
mée
,
and
furthermore
,
so
farre
foorth
as
I
may
,
I
wil
be
yours
in
any
respect
:
wherfore
I
beséech
you
accept
me
for
your
faithfull
friend
,
and
so
shall
you
surely
find
mée
.
Not
so
,
quod
shée
,
but
you
shal
be
my
Trust
,
if
you
vouchsafe
the
name
,
and
I
wil
be
to
you
as
you
shall
please
to
terme
mée
:
my
H●pe
(
quod
hée
)
if
you
so
be
pleased
and
:
thus
agreed
,
they
two
walked
a
parte
from
the
other
Gentlewoman
,
and
fell
into
sad
talke
,
wherein
Mistresse
Fraunces
dyd
very
curteousely
declare
vnto
him
,
that
in
déed
,
one
cause
of
hir
sorrow
susteyned
in
his
behalfe
,
was
that
he
had
sayd
so
openly
ouer
night
,
that
hée
could
not
loue
,
for
shée
perceyued
very
well
the
affection
betwéene
him
and
Madame
Elynor
,
and
she
was
also
aduertised
that
Dame
Elynor
stood
in
the
portall
of
hir
chamber
,
harkening
to
the
talke
that
they
had
at
supper
that
night
,
wherefore
she
séemed
to
be
sory
that
such
a
woord
(
rashely
escaped
)
might
become
great
hinderaunce
vnto
his
desire
:
but
a
greater
cause
of
hir
grief
was
(
as
she
declared
)
that
hys
hap
was
to
bestowe
his
lyking
so
vnworthely
,
for
shee
séemed
to
accuse
Dame
Elynor
,
for
the
most
vnconstant
woman
lyuing
:
In
full
profe
whereof
,
she
bewrayed
vnto
F.
I.
how
she
the
same
Dame
Elynor
,
had
of
long
time
ben
yéelded
to
the
Mynion
Secretary
,
whom
I
haue
before
described
:
in
whom
though
there
bee
(
quod
shée
)
no
one
point
of
worthynesse
,
yit
shameth
she
not
to
vse
him
as
h●●●ea●est
friend
,
or
rather
hir
holyest
Idoll
,
and
that
this
not
withstanding
Dame
Elynor
had
bene
also
sundry
tymes
woone
to
choyce
of
chaunge
,
as
she
named
vnto
F.
I.
two
Gentlemen
whereof
the
one
was
named
H.
D.
and
that
other
H.
K.
by
whom
shee
was
during
sundry
tymes
of
their
seuerall
aboad
in
those
parties
,
entreated
to
like
●urteousie
,
for
these
causes
the
Dame
Fraunces
séemed
to
mislike
F.
I.
choice
,
and
to
lament
that
she
doubted
in
processe
of
time
to
sée
him
abused
.
The
experiment
she
ment
was
this
,
for
that
she
thought
F.
I.
(
I
vse
hir
wordes
)
a
man
in
euery
respect
very
woorthy
to
haue
the
seuerall
vse
of
a
more
commodious
common
,
she
hoped
nowe
to
sée
if
his
enclosure
thereof
might
be
defensible
against
hir
sayd
Secretary
,
and
such
like
.
These
things
and
diuers
other
of
great
importance
,
this
courteouse
Lady
Fraunces
did
friendly
disclose
vnto
F.
I.
and
furthermore
,
did
both
instruct
and
aduise
him
how
to
procéede
in
his
enterprise
.
Now
to
make
my
talke
good
,
and
least
the
Reader
might
bee
drawen
in
a
ielouse
suppose
of
this
Lady
Fraunces
;
I
must
let
you
vnderstand
that
shée
was
vnto
F.
I.
a
kinswoman
,
a
virgin
of
rare
chastitie
,
singular
capacitie
,
notable
modestie
,
and
excellent
beauty
:
and
though
F.
I.
had
cast
his
affection
on
the
other
(
being
a
married
woman
)
yit
was
ther
in
their
beauties
no
great
difference
:
but
in
all
other
good
giftes
a
wonderfull
diuersitie
,
as
much
as
might
be
betwene
constancie
&
●litting
fantasie
,
betwene
womāly
coūtenance
&
girlish
garishnes
,
betwene
hot
dissimulacion
&
temperate
fidelitie
.
Now
if
any
man
will
curiously
aske
the
question
why
F.
I.
should
chuse
the
one
and
leaue
the
other
,
ouer
and
besides
the
cōmon
prouerbe
?
(
So
many
men
so
many
minds
)
thus
may
be
answered
:
we
sée
by
cōmon
experience
,
that
the
highest
flying
fa●con
,
doth
more
cōmonly
pray
vpō
the
corn
fed
crow
,
&
the
simple
shiftles
doue
,
then
on
the
mounting
kyte
:
and
why
?
because
the
one
is
ouercome
with
lesse
difficultie
then
that
other
.
Thus
much
in
defence
of
this
Lady
Fraunces
,
&
to
excuse
the
choice
of
my
friend
F.
I.
who
thought
himself
now
no
lesse
beholding
to
good
fortune
,
to
haue
found
such
a
trusty
friend
,
then
bounden
to
Dame
Venus
,
to
haue
wonne
such
a
Mistres
.
And
to
returne
vnto
my
pretence
,
vnderstand
you
,
the
F.
I.
(
being
now
with
these
two
fair
Ladies
come
very
néer
the
castle
)
grewe
in
some
ielouse
doubt
(
as
on
his
own
behalf
)
whether
he
were
best
to
break
cōpany
or
not
.
Whē
his
assured
Hope
,
perceiuing
the
same
,
gan
thus
recomfort
him
:
Good
sir
(
qd
she
)
if
you
trusted
your
trusty
friends
,
you
should
not
néede
thus
cowardly
to
stand
in
dread
of
your
friendly
enimies
.
Well
said
in
faith
(
quod
F.
I.
and
I
must
confesse
,
you
were
in
my
bosome
before
I
wist
,
but
yit
I
haue
heard
said
often
,
that
in
Trust
is
treason
.
Wel
spokē
for
your self
quod
his
Hope
.
F.
I.
now
remembring
that
he
had
but
erewhile
taken
vpon
him
the
name
of
hir
Trust
,
came
home
per
misericordiam
,
when
his
Hope
entring
the
Castle
gate
,
caught
hold
of
his
lay
,
and
half
by
force
led
him
by
the
gallery
vnto
his
Mistre●
chāber
:
wheras
after
a
little
dissembling
disdain
,
he
was
at
last
by
the
good
helpe
of
his
Hope
,
right
thankfully
receyued
:
and
for
his
Mistres
was
now
ready
to
dyne
,
he
was
therfore
for
that
time
arested
there
,
&
a
supersedias
sent
into
the
great
chāber
vnto
the
Lord
of
the
house
,
who
expected
his
cōming
out
of
the
parke
.
The
dinner
ended
,
&
he
throughly
contented
with
t
welfare
&
welcome
,
they
fell
into
sundry
deuices
of
pastime
:
at
last
F.
I.
taking
into
his
hand
a
Lute
that
lay
on
his
Mistres
bed
,
did
vnto
the
note
of
the
Venetian
galliard
applie
the
Italian
dittie
written
by
the
woorthy
Bradamant
vnto
the
noble
Rugier
,
as
Ari●sto
hath
it
.
Rugier
qual
semper
fui
,
&c
.
but
his
Mistres
could
not
be
quiet
vntil
shée
heard
him
repeat
the
Tyntarnell
which
he
vsed
ouer
night
,
the
which
F.
I.
〈…〉
nights
roste
,
with
the
bruse
thereof
.
Well
,
seruaunt
(
quod
she
)
content
your selfe
,
and
for
your
sake
,
I
will
speake
to
hir
to
prouide
him
a
playster
,
the
which
I
my selfe
will
applye
to
his
hurt
:
And
to
the
ende
it
may
woorke
the
better
with
him
,
I
will
puruey
a
lodging
for
him
,
where
hereafter
he
may
sléepe
at
more
quiet
.
This
layd
the
rosie
hewe
,
distained
hir
sickly
chéekes
,
and
she
returned
to
the
company
,
leauing
F.
I.
rauished
betwene
hope
and
dread
,
as
one
that
could
neyther
co●●ecture
the
meaning
of
hir
misticall
wordes
,
nor
assuredly
●rust
vnto
the
knot
of
hir
slyding
affections
.
When
the
Lady
Fraunces
cōming
to
him
,
demaunded
,
what
?
dreame
you
sir
?
Yea
mary
do
I
fayre
Lady
(
quod
he
)
.
And
what
was
your
dreame
,
sir
(
quod
she
?
)
I
drempt
(
quod
F.
I.
)
that
wa●●ing
in
a
pleasaunt
garden
garnished
with
sundrie
〈◊〉
,
my
hap
was
to
espie
hanging
in
the
ayre
,
a
hope
wher
in
I
might
well
behold
the
aspectes
and
face
of
the
heauens
,
and
calling
to
remembrance
the
day
and
hower
of
my
natiuitie
,
I
did
therby
(
according
to
my
small
skill
in
Astronomy
)
trie
the
conclusions
of
myne
aduentures
.
And
what
found
you
therin
(
quod
dame
Fraunces
?
)
you
awaked
me
out
of
my
dreame
(
quod
he
)
or
ells
paraduenture
you
should
not
haue
knowne
.
I
beleue
you
well
(
quod
the
Ladi
Fraunces
)
and
laughing
at
his
quicke
aunswere
brought
him
by
the
hand
vnto
the
rest
of
his
companie
:
where
he
●aried
not
long
before
his
gracious
Mistresse
had
him
to
farewell
,
and
to
kepe
his
hower
there
againe
,
when
he
should
by
hir
be
sommoned
.
Hereby
F.
I.
passed
the
rest
of
that
daye
in
hope
awayting
the
happy
time
when
his
Mistresse
shoulde
sende
for
him
.
Supper
time
came
and
passed
ouer
,
and
not
long
after
came
the
handmayd
of
the
Lady
Elynor
into
the
great
chamber
,
desiring
F.
I.
to
repayre
vnto
their
Mistresse
,
the
which
hée
willingly
accomplished
:
and
being
now
entred
into
hir
chamber
,
he
might
perceyue
his
Mistresse
in
hir
nightes
attyre
,
preparinge
hir selfe
towardes
bed
,
to
whom
F.
I.
sayed
:
Why
howe
now
Mistresse
?
I
had
thought
this
night
to
haue
sene
you
daunce
(
at
least
or
at
last
)
amongst
vs
?
By
my
troth
good
seruaūt
(
qd
she
)
aduentured
so
soone
vnto
the
great
chamber
yesternight
,
that
I
find
my selfe
somewhat
sickly
disposed
,
and
therfore
do
streyne
curtesie
(
as
you
sée
)
to
go
the
soner
to
my
bed
this
night
:
but
before
I
slepe
(
quod
she
)
I
am
to
charge
you
with
a
matter
of
waight
,
and
taking
him
apart
from
the
rest
,
declared
that
(
as
that
present
night
)
she
would
talke
with
him
more
at
large
in
the
gallery
néere
aioyning
to
hir
chamber
.
Here
vppon
F.
I.
discretely
dissimuling
his
ioye
,
toke
his
leaue
and
returned
into
the
great
chamber
,
where
he
had
not
long
continued
before
the
Lord
of
the
Castell
commaūded
a
torch
to
light
him
vnto
his
lodging
,
whereas
he
prepared
himselfe
and
went
to
bed
,
commaunding
his
seruant
also
to
go
to
his
rest
.
And
when
he
thought
aswell
his
seruaunt
,
as
the
rest
of
the
houshold
to
be
safe
,
he
arose
again
,
&
taking
his
night
gowne
,
did
vnder
the
same
conuey
his
naked
sword
,
and
so
walked
to
the
gallerie
,
where
he
found
his
good
Mistresse
walking
in
hir
night
gowne
and
attending
his
comming
.
The
Moone
was
now
at
the
full
,
the
skies
cleare
,
and
the
weather
temperate
,
by
reason
wherof
he
might
the
more
playnely
and
with
the
greater
contentation
behold
his
long
desired
ioyes
,
and
spreding
his
armes
abrode
to
embrace
his
louing
Mistresse
,
he
sayd
:
oh
my
deare
Lady
when
shall
I
be
able
with
any
desert
to
counteruayle
the
least
parte
of
this
your
bountifull
goodnesse
?
The
dame
(
whether
it
were
of
feare
in
déede
,
or
that
the
wylynes
of
womanhode
had
taught
hir
to
couer
hir
conceites
with
some
fyue
dissimulation
)
stert
backe
from
the
Kning●
,
and
shriching
(
but
softly
)
sayd
vnto
him
.
Alas
seruaunt
what
haue
I
deserued
,
that
you
come
against
me
with
naked
sword
as
against
an
open
enimie
.
F.
I.
perceyuing
hir
entent
excused
himselfe
,
declaring
that
he
brought
the
same
for
their
defence
,
&
not
to
offend
hir
in
any
wise
.
The
Ladie
being
therwith
somwhat
apeased
,
they
began
w
t
more
cōfortable
gesture
to
expell
the
dread
of
the
said
late
affright
,
and
sithens
to
become
bolder
of
behauiour
,
more
familier
in
spéech
,
&
most
kind
in
accomplishing
of
comon
comfort
.
But
why
hold
I
so
long
discourse
in
discribing
the
ioyes
which
(
for
lacke
of
like
experience
)
I
cannot
set
out
to
the
ful
?
Were
it
not
that
I
knowe
to
whom
I
write
,
I
would
the
more
beware
what
I
write
.
F.
I.
was
a
man
,
and
neither
of
vs
are
sencelesse
,
and
therfore
I
shold
slaunder
him
,
(
ouer
and
besides
a
greater
obloquie
to
the
whole
genealogie
of
Enaeas
)
if
I
should
imagine
that
of
tender
hart
he
would
forbeare
to
expresse
hir
more
tender
limbes
against
the
hard
floore
.
Suffised
that
of
hir
curteouse
nature
she
was
content
to
accept
bords
for
a
bead
of
downe
,
mattes
for
Camerike
shéetes
,
and
the
night
gowne
of
F.
I.
for
a
counterpoynt
to
couer
them
,
and
thus
with
calme
cōtent
,
in
stéede
of
quiet
sléepe
,
they
be●uiled
the
night
,
vntill
the
proudest
sterre
began
to
abandon
the
fyrmament
,
when
F.
I.
and
his
Mistresse
,
were
constrayned
also
to
abandon
their
delightes
,
and
with
ten
thousand
swéet
kisses
and
straight
embracings
,
did
frame
themselues
to
play
loth
to
depart
.
Wel
,
remedie
was
there
none
,
but
dame
Elynor
must
returne
vnto
hir
chamber
,
and
F.
I.
must
also
conuey
himselfe
(
as
closely
as
might
be
)
into
his
chamber
,
the
which
was
hard
to
do
,
the
day
being
so
farre
sprong
,
and
hée
hauing
a
large
base
court
to
passe
ouer
before
he
could
recouer
his
staire
foote
doore
.
And
though
he
were
not
much
perceyued
,
yet
the
Ladie
Fraunces
being
no
lesse
desirous
to
sée
an
issue
of
these
enterprises
,
then
F.
I.
was
willing
to
couer
them
in
secresy
,
did
watch
,
&
euen
at
the
entring
of
his
chamber
doore
,
perceyued
the
poynt
of
his
naked
sworde
glistring
vnder
the
skyrt
of
his
night
gowne
:
wherat
she
smyled
&
said
to
hir selfe
,
this
geare
goeth
well
about
.
Wel
,
F.
I.
hauing
now
recouered
his
chamber
,
he
went
to
bedde
,
&
there
let
him
sléepe
,
as
his
Mistresse
did
on
that
otherside
.
Although
the
Lady
Fraunces
being
throughly
tickled
now
in
all
the
vaynes
,
could
not
enioye
such
quiet
rest
,
but
arising
,
toke
another
gentlewoman
of
the
house
with
hir
,
and
walked
into
the
parke
to
take
the
freshe
ayre
of
the
morning
.
They
had
not
long
walked
there
,
but
they
retorned
,
and
though
F.
I.
had
not
yet
slept
sufficiently
,
for
one
which
had
so
farre
trauayled
in
the
night
past
,
yet
they
went
into
his
chamber
to
rayse
him
,
and
comming
to
his
beds
side
,
found
him
fast
on
sléepe
.
Alas
●uod
that
other
gentlewoman
,
it
were
pitie
to
awake
him
:
euen
so
it
were
quod
dame
Fraunces
,
but
we
will
take
awaye
somewhat
of
his
,
wherby
he
may
perceyue
that
we
were
here
,
and
loking
about
the
chamber
,
his
naked
sworde
presented
it selfe
to
the
handes
of
dame
Fraunces
,
who
toke
it
with
hir
,
and
softly
shutting
his
chamber
doore
againe
,
went
downe
the
stayres
and
recouered
hir
owne
lodging
,
in
good
order
and
vnperceyued
of
any
body
,
sauing
onely
that
other
gentlewoman
which
accompanied
hir
.
At
the
last
F.
I.
awaked
,
and
apparreling
himselfe
,
walked
out
also
to
take
the
ayre
,
and
being
throughly
recomforted
aswell
with
remembraunce
of
his
ioyes
forepassed
,
as
also
with
the
pleasaunt
hermony
which
the
Byr●es
made
on
euery
side
,
and
the
fragrant
smel
of
the
redolent
flowers
and
blossomes
which
budded
on
euery
braunche
:
hée
did
in
these
delightes
compyle
these
verses
following
.
¶
The
occasion
(
as
I
haue
heard
him
rehearse
)
was
by
encoūter
that
he
had
with
his
Lady
by
light
of
the
moone
:
and
forasmuch
,
as
the
moone
in
middes
of
their
delights
did
vanish
away
,
or
was
ouerspred
with
a
cloud
,
thereuppon
he
toke
the
subiect
of
his
theame
.
And
thus
it
ensueth
,
called
a
imooneshine
Banquet
.
G.
T.
DAme
Cinthia
hir selfe
(
that
shines
so
bright
,
And
deyneth
not
to
leaue
hir
loftie
place
:
But
only
then
,
when
Phoebus
shewes
his
face
Which
is
hir
brother
borne
and
lends
hir
light
,
)
Disdaynd
not
yet
to
do
my
Lady
right
:
To
proue
that
in
such
heauenly
wightes
as
she
,
It
sitteth
best
that
right
and
reason
be
.
For
when
she
spied
my
Ladies
golden
rayes
,
Into
the
cloudes
,
Hir
head
she
shrouds
,
And
shamed
to
shine
where
she
hir
beames
displayes
.
Good
reason
yet
,
that
to
my
simple
skill
,
I
should
the
name
of
Cynthia
adore
:
By
whose
high
helpe
,
I
might
behold
the
more
My
Ladies
louely
lookes
at
mine
owne
wil
,
With
deepe
content
,
to
gare
,
and
gaze
my
fil
:
Of
curteousie
and
not
of
darke
disdaine
,
Dame
Cinthia
dis●losd
my
Lady
playne
,
She
did
but
lend
hir
light
(
as
for
a
lyte
)
With
friendly
grace
,
To
shewe
hir
face
,
That
els
would
shew
and
shine
in
hir
dispight
.
Dan
Phoebus
he
with
many
a
lowring
loke
,
Had
hir
heheld
of
yore
in
angry
wise
:
And
when
he
could
none
other
meane
deuise
To
stayne
hir
name
,
this
deepe
deceipt
he
toke
To
be
the
bayt●
that
best
might
hide
his
hoke
:
Into
hir
eyes
his
parching
beames
he
cast
,
To
skorche
their
skinnes
,
that
gaz'd
on
hir
full
fast
:
Whereby
when
many
a
man
was
sonne
burnt
so
They
thought
my
Queene
,
The
sonne
had
been
With
skalding
flames
,
which
wrought
them
all
that
wo
▪
And
thus
when
many
a
looke
had
lookt
so
long
,
As
that
their
eyes
were
dimme
and
dazled
both
:
Some
fainting
hartes
that
were
both
leude
and
loth
To
loke
againe
from
whence
the
error
sprong
,
Gan
close
their
eye
for
feare
of
further
wrong
:
And
some
againe
once
drawne
into
the
maze
,
Gan
leudly
blame
the
beames
of
beauties
blaze
:
But
I
with
deepe
foresight
did
sone
espie
,
How
Phoebus
ment
,
By
false
entent
,
To
slaunder
so
hir
name
with
crueltie
.
Wherfore
at
better
leasure
thought
I
best
,
To
trie
the
treason
of
his
trecherie
:
And
to
exalt
my
Ladies
dignitie
When
Phoebus
fled
and
drew
him
downe
to
rest
Amid
the
waues
that
walter
in
the
west
.
I
gan
behold
this
louely
Ladies
face
,
Whereon
dame
nature
spent
hir
gifts
of
grace
:
And
found
therin
no
parching
heat
at
all
,
But
such
bright
hew
,
As
might
renew
,
An
Angels
ioyes
in
reigne
celestiall
.
The
curteouse
Moone
that
wisht
to
do
me
good
,
Did
shine
to
shew
my
dame
more
perfectly
,
But
when
she
sawe
hir
passing
iollitie
,
The
Moone
for
shame
,
did
blush
as
red
as
blood
,
And
sh●onke
a
side
and
kept
hir
hornes
in
hood
:
So
that
now
when
Dame
Cynthia
was
gone
,
I
might
enioye
my
Ladies
lokes
alone
,
Yet
honored
still
the
Moone
with
true
intent
:
Who
taught
vs
skill
,
To
worke
our
will
,
And
gaue
vs
place
,
till
all
the
night
was
spent
.
F.
I.
THis
Ballade
,
or
howsoeuer
I
shall
terme
it
,
percase
you
will
not
like
,
and
yet
in
my
iudgement
it
hath
great
good
store
of
déepe
inuention
,
and
for
the
order
of
the
verse
,
it
is
not
common
,
I
haue
not
heard
many
of
like
proporcion
,
some
will
accompt
it
but
a
dyddeldome
:
but
who
so
had
heard
F.
I.
sing
it
to
the
lute
,
by
a
note
of
his
owne
deuise
,
I
suppose
he
would
esteme
it
to
bée
a
pleasaunt
diddeldome
,
and
for
my
part
,
if
I
were
not
parciall
,
I
woulde
saye
more
in
commendacion
of
it
than
nowe
I
meane
to
do
,
leauing
it
to
your
and
like
iudgementes
.
And
nowe
to
returns
to
my
tale
,
by
that
time
,
that
F.
I.
retorned
out
of
the
parke
,
it
was
dynner
time
,
and
at
dynner
they
all
met
,
I
meane
both
dame
Elynor
,
dame
Fraunces
,
and
F.
I.
I
leaue
to
discribe
that
the
Lady
Fraunces
was
gorgeously
attired
,
and
set
forth
with
very
braue
apparell
,
and
Madame
Elynor
onely
in
hir
night
gowne
gyrt
to
hir
,
with
a
coyfe
trymmed
Alla
Piedmonteze
,
on
the
which
she
ware
a
little
cap
crossed
ouer
the
crowne
with
two
bends
of
yellowe
Sarcenet
or
Cipresse
,
in
the
middest
whereof
she
had
placed
(
of
hir
owne
had
writing
)
in
paper
this
word
,
Contented
.
This
attyre
pleased
hir
then
to
vse
,
and
could
not
haue
displeased
Mistresse
Fraunces
,
had
she
not
bene
more
priuy
to
the
cause
,
than
to
the
thing
it selfe
:
at
least
the
Lord
of
the
Castle
of
ignoraunce
,
and
dame
Fraunces
of
great
temp●rance
,
let
it
passe
without
offence
.
At
dynner
,
bicause
the
one
was
pleased
with
all
former
reconninges
,
and
the
other
made
priuie
to
the
accompt
,
there
passed
no
word
of
taunt
or
grudge
,
but
omnia
bene
.
After
dynner
dame
Elinor
being
no
lesse
desirouse
to
haue
F.
I.
company
,
then
dame
Fraunces
was
to
take
him
in
some
pretie
trippe
,
they
began
to
questiō
how
they
might
best
passe
the
day
:
the
Lady
Elynor
séemed
desirous
to
kepe
her
chamber
,
but
Mistresse
Fraunces
for
another
purpose
séemed
desirous
to
ryde
abrode
thereby
to
take
the
open
ayre
:
they
agréed
to
ryde
a
myle
or
twayne
for
sollace
,
and
requested
F.
I.
to
accompany
them
,
the
which
willingly
graunted
.
Eche
one
parted
from
other
,
to
prepare
themselues
,
and
now
began
the
sporte
,
for
when
F.
I.
was
booted
,
his
horses
sadled
,
and
he
ready
to
ryde
,
he
gan
mysse
his
Rapier
,
wherat
al
astonied
he
began
to
blame
his
man
,
but
blame
whom
he
would
,
found
it
could
not
be
.
At
last
the
Ladies
going
towardes
horsebacke
called
for
him
in
the
base
Court
,
and
demaunded
if
he
were
readie
:
to
whom
F.
I.
aunswered
.
Madames
I
am
more
than
readie
,
and
yet
not
so
ready
as
I
would
be
,
and
immediatly
taking
him selfe
in
trip
,
he
thought
best
to
vtter
no
more
of
his
conceipt
,
but
in
hast
more
than
good
spéede
mounted
his
horse
,
&
comming
toward
the
dames
presented
him self
,
turning
,
bounding
,
&
taking
vp
his
courser
to
the
vttermost
of
his
power
in
brauery
:
after
suffering
his
horse
to
breath
him selfe
,
he
gan
also
allay
his
owne
choller
,
&
to
the
dames
he
sayd
.
Fayre
Ladies
I
am
ready
when
it
pleaseth
you
to
ryde
where
so
you
commaund
.
How
ready
soeuer
you
be
seruaunt
,
quod
dame
Elinor
,
it
séemeth
your
horse
is
readier
at
your
commaunde
then
at
oures
.
If
he
bée
at
my
commaund
Mistresse
(
quod
hée
,
)
he
shal
be
at
yours
.
Gramercy
good
seruaunt
(
quod
shée
)
but
my
meaning
is
,
that
I
feare
he
be
to
stirring
for
our
cōpany
.
If
he
proue
so
Mistres
qd
F.
I.
I
haue
here
a
soberer
palfrey
to
serue
you
on
.
The
Dames
being
mounted
they
rode
forthwardes
by
the
space
of
a
myle
or
very
neare
,
and
F.
I.
(
whether
it
were
of
his
horses
corage
or
his
own
choler
)
came
not
so
neare
them
as
they
wished
,
at
last
the
Lady
Fraunces
said
vnto
him
:
Maister
I.
you
said
that
you
had
a
soberer
horse
,
which
if
it
be
so
,
we
wold
be
glad
of
your
company
,
but
I
beleue
by
your
coūtinance
,
your
horse
&
you
are
agréed
.
F.
I.
alighting
called
his
seruaunt
,
chaūged
horses
with
him
,
and
ouertaking
the
Dames
,
said
to
Mistres
Fraunces
:
And
why
doe
you
thinke
faire
Lady
that
my
horse
and
I
are
agréed
?
Bicause
by
your
countenance
(
quod
she
)
it
seemeth
your
pacience
is
stirred
.
In
good
faith
,
quod
F.
I.
you
haue
gessed
a
right
,
but
not
with
any
of
you
.
Then
we
care
the
lesse
seruaunt
,
quod
Dame
Elinor
▪
By
my
troth
Mistres
.
qd
F.
I.
(
looking
well
about
him
that
none
might
heare
but
they
two
)
it
is
with
my
seruaunt
,
who
hath
lost
my
sword
out
of
my
chamber
.
Dame
Elinor
little
remembring
the
occasion
,
replied
it
is
no
matter
seruaunt
,
quod
shee
,
you
shall
heare
of
it
againe
,
I
warrant
you
,
and
presently
wée
ryde
in
Gods
peace
,
and
I
turst
shall
haue
no
néede
of
it
:
yet
Mistresse
quod
he
,
a
weapon
serueth
both
vses
,
aswell
to
defend
,
as
to
offend
.
Now
by
my
troth
,
quod
Dame
Fraunces
,
I
haue
now
my
dream
,
for
I
dreamt
this
night
that
I
was
in
a
pleasaunt
meadow
alone
,
where
I
met
with
a
tall
Gentleman
,
apparelled
in
a
night
gowne
of
silke
all
embroadered
about
with
a
gard
of
naked
swords
,
and
when
he
came
towardes
me
I
séemed
to
be
afraide
of
him
,
but
he
recomforted
me
saying
,
be
not
afrayd
fayre
Lady
,
for
I
vse
this
garment
onely
for
myne
own
defence
:
and
in
this
sort
went
that
warlicke
God
Mars
what
time
hée
taught
dame
Venus
to
make
Vulcan
a
hamer
of
the
newe
fashion
.
Notwithstanding
these
comfortable
wordes
the
fright
of
the
dreame
awaked
me
,
and
sithens
vnto
this
hower
I
haue
not
slept
at
al.
And
what
tyme
of
the
night
dreamt
you
this
quod
F.
I
?
In
the
grey
morning
about
daw●ing
of
the
day
,
but
why
aske
you
quod
dame
Fran̄ces
?
F.
I.
with
a
great
sigh
answered
,
because
that
dreames
are
to
be
marched
more
at
some
hower
of
the
night
,
then
at
some
other
,
why
are
you
so
cunning
at
the
interpretation
of
dreames
seruaunt
(
quod
the
Lady
Elynor
?
)
not
very
cunning
Mistresse
quod
F.I.
but
gesse
,
like
a
young
scholler
.
The
dames
continued
in
these
and
like
pleasant
talkes
:
but
F.
I.
could
not
be
mery
,
as
one
that
estemed
the
preseruation
of
his
Mistresse
honor
no
lesse
then
the
obtayning
of
his
owne
delightes
:
and
yet
to
auoyde
further
suspicion
,
he
repressed
his
passions
,
asmuch
as
hée
could
.
The
Lady
Elynor
more
carelesse
then
consideratiue
of
hir
owne
case
,
pricking
forwardes
said
softly
to
F.
I.
I
had
thought
you
had
receiued
small
cause
seruaunt
to
bée
thus
dumpish
,
when
I
would
be
mery
.
Alas
déere
Mistresse
quod
F.
I.
it
is
altogether
for
your
sake
,
that
I
am
pensife
:
dame
Fraunces
with
curtesie
withdrewe
hir
sel●e
and
gaue
them
leaue
when
as
F.
I.
declared
vnto
his
Mistresse
,
that
his
sword
was
taken
out
of
his
chamber
,
and
that
he
dreaded
much
by
the
wordes
of
the
Lady
Fraunces
,
that
she
had
some
vnderstanding
of
the
matter
.
Dame
Elynor
now
calling
to
remembraunce
what
had
passed
the
same
night
,
at
the
first
was
abashed
,
but
immediatly
(
for
these
women
be
redely
wyt●ed
)
chered
hir
seruaunt
,
and
willed
him
to
commit
vnto
hir
the
saluing
of
that
s●re
.
Thus
they
passed
the
rest
of
the
waye
in
pleasaunt
talke
with
dame
Fraunces
,
and
so
returned
towards
the
Castle
where
F.
I.
suffered
the
two
dames
to
go
together
,
and
he
alone
vnto
his
chamber
to
bewayle
his
owne
misgouernement
.
But
dame
Elynor
(
whether
it
wer
according
to
olde
custome
,
or
by
wylie
pollicie
)
found
meane
that
night
,
that
the
sword
was
conueyed
out
of
Mistres
Fraunces
chamber
and
brought
vnto
hirs
and
after
redeliuerie
of
it
vnto
F.
I.
she
warned
him
to
be
more
wary
from
that
time
forthwards
:
well
I
dwell
too
long
vppon
these
particular
poynts
in
discoursing
this
trif●ing
history
,
but
that
the
same
is
the
more
apte
meane
of
introduction
to
the
verses
,
which
I
meane
to
reherse
vnto
you
,
and
I
think
you
wil
not
disdaine
to
read
my
conceipt
with
his
inuention
about
declaration
of
his
commedie
.
The
next
that
euer
F.
I.
wrote
thē
,
vpon
any
aduēture
hapned
betwene
him
and
this
fayre
Lady
,
was
this
as
I
haue
heard
him
say
,
and
vppon
this
occasion
.
After
he
grew
more
bold
&
better
acquaynted
with
his
Mistresse
disposition
,
he
aduentured
one
Fryday
in
the
morning
to
go
vnto
hir
chāber
,
and
theruppon
wrote
as
followeth
:
which
he
termed
a
Frydayes
Breakefast
.
G.
T.
That
selfe
same
day
,
and
of
that
day
that
hower
,
When
she
doth
raigne
,
that
mockt
Vulcane
the
Smith
:
And
thought
it
meete
to
harbor
in
hir
bower
,
Some
gallant
gest
for
hir
to
dally
with
.
That
blessed
hower
,
that
blist
and
happie
daye
,
I
thought
it
meete
,
with
hastie
steppes
to
go
:
Vnto
the
lodge
,
wherein
my
Lady
laye
,
To
laugh
for
ioye
,
or
ells
to
weepe
for
wo
.
And
lo
,
my
Lady
of
hir
wonted
grace
,
First
lent
hir
lippes
to
me
(
as
for
a
kisse
:
)
And
after
that
hir
body
to
embrace
,
Wherein
dame
nature
wrought
nothing
amisse
.
What
followed
next
,
gesse
you
that
knowe
the
trade
,
For
in
this
sort
,
my
Frydayes
feast
I
made
.
F.
I.
THis
Sonet
is
short
and
swéete
,
reasonably
well
,
according
to
the
occasion
&c
.
Many
dayes
passed
these
two
louers
with
great
delight
,
their
affayres
being
no
lesse
politikely
gouerned
,
than
happely
atchiued
.
And
surely
I
haue
heard
F.
I.
affirme
in
sad
earnest
,
that
hée
did
not
onely
loue
hir
,
but
was
furthermore
so
rauished
in
Extasies
with
continual
remembrance
of
his
delights
,
that
he
made
an
Idoll
of
hir
in
his
inward
conceypte
.
So
séemeth
it
by
this
challenge
to
beautie
,
which
he
wrote
in
hir
prayse
and
vppon
hir
name
.
G.
T.
BEautie
shut
vp
thy
shop
,
and
trusse
vp
all
thy
trash
,
My
Nell
hath
stolen
thy
fynest
stuff
,
&
le●t
thee
in
the
lash
:
Thy
market
now
is
marred
,
thy
gaynes
are
gone
god
wot
,
Thou
hast
no
ware
,
that
may
compare
,
with
this
that
I
haue
got
▪
As
for
thy
paynted
pale
,
and
wrinckles
surfled
vp
:
Are
deare
inough
,
for
such
as
lust
to
drinke
of
eu'ry
cup
:
Thy
bodies
bolstred
out
,
with
bumbast
and
with
bagges
,
Thy
rowles
,
thy
Ruffes
,
thy
caules
,
thy
coyfes
,
thy
Ierkins
&
thy
iagges
.
Thy
curling
and
thy
cost
,
thy
frisling
&
thy
fare
,
To
Court
to
court
with
al
those
toyes
,
&
there
setforth
such
ware
Before
their
hungry
eyes
,
that
gaze
on
euery
gest
:
And
chuse
the
cheapest
chaffayre
still
,
to
please
their
fansie
best
.
But
I
whose
stedfast
eyes
,
could
neuer
cast
a
glance
,
With
wādring
loke
,
amid
the
prease
,
to
take
my
choice
by
chaūce
Haue
wonne
by
due
desert
,
a
piece
that
hath
no
peere
,
And
left
the
rest
as
refuse
all
,
to
serue
the
market
there
:
There
let
him
chuse
that
list
,
there
catch
the
best
who
can
:
A
paynted
blazing
bayte
may
serue
,
to
choke
a
gazing
man
.
But
I
haue
slipt
thy
flower
,
that
freshest
is
of
hewe
,
I
haue
thy
corne
,
go
sell
thy
chaff
,
I
list
to
seeke
no
new
:
The
wyndowes
of
myne
eyes
,
are
glaz'd
with
such
delight
,
As
eche
new
face
seemes
full
of
faultes
,
that
blaseth
in
my
sight
:
And
not
without
iust
cause
▪
I
can
compare
hir
so
,
Lo
here
my
gloue
I
challenge
him
,
that
can
,
or
dare
say
no
.
Let
Theseus
come
with
clubbe
,
or
Paris
bragge
with
brand
,
To
proue
how
fayre
their
Hellen
was
,
that
skourg'd
the
Grecian
land
:
Let
mighty
Mars
him selfe
,
come
armed
to
the
field
:
And
vaunt
dame
Venus
to
defend
,
with
helmet
speare
&
shield
This
hand
that
had
good
hap
,
my
Hellen
to
embrace
,
Shal
haue
like
lucke
to
foyl
hir
foes
,
&
daūt
them
with
disgrace
.
And
cause
them
to
confesse
by
verdict
and
by
othe
▪
How
farre
hir
louely
lookes
do
steyne
the
beauties
of
them
both
.
And
that
my
Hellen
is
more
fayre
then
Paris
wife
,
And
doth
deserue
more
famous
praise
,
then
Venus
for
hir
life
.
Which
if
I
not
perfourme
,
my
l●fe
then
let
me
leese
,
Or
elles
be
bound
in
chaines
of
change
to
begge
for
beauties
fies
.
F.
I.
BY
this
challenge
I
gesse
,
that
either
hée
was
than
in
an
〈…〉
els
sure
I
am
now
in
a
lunacie
,
for
it
is
▪
a
prou●
challenge
made
to
Beautie
hir selfe
,
and
all
hir
companyons
and
ymag●●ing
that
Beautie
hauing
a
shop
where
she
vtt●●
hir
wares
of
all
sundry
sortes
,
his
Ladie
had
stollen
the
fyne
●away
,
leauing
none
behind
hir
,
but
paynting
,
bolstring
,
forcing
and
such
like
the
which
in
his
rage
he
iudgeth
good
ynough
to
serue
the
Courte
:
and
theruppon
grew
a
great
quarrell
.
When
these
verses
were
by
the
negligence
of
his
Mistresse
dispersed
into
sundry
hands
,
and
so
at
last
to
the
reading
of
a
Courtier
.
Well
F.
I.
had
his
desire
if
his
Mistresse
lyked
them
,
but
as
I
haue
heard
him
declare
,
she
grew
in
ieolosie
,
that
the
same
were
not
written
by
hir
,
because
hir
name
was
Elynor
and
not
Hellen.
And
about
this
poynt
haue
bene
diuers
and
sundry
opinions
,
for
this
and
diuers
other
of
his
most
notable
Poems
,
haue
come
to
view
of
the
world
,
althogh
altogether
wtout
his
cōsent
.
And
some
haue
attributed
this
prayse
vnto
a
Hellen
,
who
deserued
not
so
well
as
this
dame
Elynor
should
séeme
to
deserue
by
the
relation
of
F.
I.
and
yet
neuer
a
ba●ell
of
good
herring
betwene
them
both
▪
But
that
other
Hellen
,
bycause
she
was
and
is
of
so
base
condicion
,
as
may
deserue
no
maner
commendacion
in
any
honest
iudgement
,
therfore
I
will
excuse
my
friend
F.
I.
and
aduenture
my
penne
in
his
behalfe
,
that
he
would
neuer
bestow
verse
of
so
meane
a
subiect
.
An●
yet
some
of
his
acquayntance
,
being
also
acquainted
(
better
then
I
,
)
that
F.
I.
was
sometimes
acquaynted
with
Hellene
,
haue
stoode
▪
in
argument
with
mée
,
that
it
was
written
by
Hellene
and
not
by
Elynor
.
Well
F.
I.
tolde
me
himselfe
that
it
was
written
by
this
dame
Elyno●
,
and
that
vnto
hir
he
thus
alleged
,
that
he
toke
it
all
for
one
〈◊〉
,
or
at
least
he
neuer
red
of
any
Elinor
such
matter
as
might
sound
worthy
like
commendation
for
beautie
.
And
in
deede
,
considering
that
it
was
in
the
fi●st
beginning
of
his
writings
,
as
then
he
was
no
writer
of
any
long
continuaunce
comparing
also
the
time
that
such
reportes
do
spread
of
his
acquayntaunce
with
Hellene
▪
it
ca●not
be
written
lesse
then
sixe
or
seuen
yeres
before
he
knew
Hell●ne
:
mary
paraduenture
if
there
were
any
acquayntance
betwene
F.
I.
and
that
Hellene
afterwardes
,
(
the
which
I
dare
no●
confesse
)
he
might
adapt
it
to
hir
name
,
and
so
make
it
serue
both
their
turnes
,
as
elder
lou●rs
haue
done
before
and
still
do
and
will
do
worlde
without
end
A●en
▪
Well
by
whom
he
wrote
it
I
know
not
,
but
once
I
am
sure
that
he
wrote
it
,
for
he
is
no
borrower
of
inue●tiōs
▪
and
this
is
al
that
I
meane
to
proue
,
as
one
that
sende
you
his
verses
by
stealth
,
and
do
him
double
wrong
,
to
disclose
vnto
any
man
the
secrete
causes
why
they
were
deuised
,
but
this
for
your
delight
I
do
aduenture
and
to
returne
to
the
purpose
,
he
sought
more
certaynely
to
please
his
Mistresse
Elynor
with
this
Sonet
written
in
hir
prayse
as
followeth
.
G.
T.
THE
stately
Dames
of
Rome
,
their
Pearles
did
weare
,
About
their
neckes
to
beautifie
their
name
:
But
she
(
whom
I
do
serue
)
hir
peeres
doth
beare
,
Close
in
hir
mouth
,
and
smiling
shewes
the
same
.
No
wonder
then
,
though
eu'ry
word
she
speakes
,
A
Iewell
seem●
in
iudgment
of
the
wise
▪
Sin●e
that
hir
●ugred
tongue
the
passage
breakes
,
Betwene
two
rocks
,
bedeckt
with
pearles
of
price
.
Hir
haire
of
gold
,
hir
front
of
Iuory
,
(
A
bloudy
hart
within
so
white
a
brest
)
Hir
teeth
of
Pearle
,
lippes
Rubie
,
christall
eye
,
Needes
must
I
honour
hir
aboue
the
rest
:
Since
she
is
fourmed
of
none
other
moulde
,
But
Rubie
,
Christall
,
Iuory
,
Pearle
,
and
Golde
.
F.
I.
OF
this
Sonet
I
am
assured
that
it
is
but
a
t●anslation
,
for
I
my selfe
haue
séene
the
inuention
of
an
Italian
,
and
Master
I.
hath
a
little
dylated
the
same
,
but
not
much
besides
the
sence
of
the
first
,
and
the
addicion
very
aptly
applied
:
wherfore
I
cannot
condempne
his
doing
therin
,
and
for
the
Sonet
,
were
it
not
a
little
to
much
prayse
(
as
the
Italians
do
most
commonly
offend
in
the
superlatiue
)
I
could
the
more
commend
it
:
but
I
hope
the
partie
to
whom
it
was
dedicated
,
had
rather
it
were
much
more
,
than
any
thing
lesse
.
Well
,
thus
these
two
Louers
passed
many
dayes
in
exceding
contentation
▪
●
more
than
speakeable
pleasures
,
in
which
time
F.
I.
did
compyle
very
many
verses
according
to
sundrie
occasions
proffred
,
whereof
I
haue
not
obteyned
the
most
at
his
handes
▪
and
the
reason
that
he
denied
me
the
same
,
was
that
(
as
he
alleged
)
they
were
for
the
most
part
sauced
with
a
taste
of
glory
,
as
you
know
that
in
such
cases
a
louer
being
charged
with
ine●priuable
ioyes
,
and
therewith
enioyned
both
by
dutie
and
discretion
to
kepe
the
same
couert
,
can
by
no
meanes
deuise
a
greater
consolation
,
than
to
commit
it
into
some
cyphred
wordes
and
figured
spéeches
in
verse
,
whereby
he
féeleth
his
harte
halfe
(
or
more
than
halfe
)
eased
of
swelling
.
For
as
sighes
are
some
present
ease
to
the
pensife
mind
,
euen
so
we
find
by
experience
,
that
such
secrete
of
ioyes
doth
encrease
delight
.
I
would
not
haue
you
conster
my
wordes
to
this
●ffecte
,
that
I
thinke
a
man
cannot
sufficiently
reioyce
in
the
luckie
lottes
of
loue
,
vnlesse
he
empart
the
same
to
others
:
God
forbid
that
euer
I
should
enter
into
such
a●
heresie
,
for
I
haue
alwayes
bene
of
this
opinion
,
that
as
to
be
fortunate
in
loue
,
is
one
of
the
most
inward
contentatious
to
mans
mynde
of
all
earthly
ioyes
:
euen
so
if
hée
do
but
once
bewray
the
same
to
any
liuing
creature
,
imemdiatlye
eyther
dread
of
discouering
doth
bruse
his
brest
with
an
intollerable
burden
,
or
els
he
léeseth
the
principall
vertue
which
gaue
effecte
to
his
gladnes
,
not
vnlike
to
a
Potycaries
pot
which
being
filled
with
swéete
oyntmentes
or
parfumes
,
doth
reteyne
in
it selfe
some
sent
of
the
same
,
and
being
powred
out
doth
returne
to
the
former
state
,
hard
,
harshe
,
and
of
small
sauour
:
So
the
minde
being
fraught
with
delightes
,
as
long
as
it
can
kepe
them
secretly
enclosed
,
may
continually
féede
vppon
the
pleasaunt
record
thereof
as
the
well
willing
and
readie
horse
byteth
on
the
brydle
,
but
hauing
once
disclosed
them
to
any
other
,
strayghtway
we
loose
the
hidden
treasure
of
the
same
,
and
are
oppressed
with
sundry
doubtfull
opinions
and
dreadfull
conceipts
.
And
yet
for
a
man
to
record
vnto
him selfe
in
the
inward
contemplation
of
his
mynde
the
often
remembrance
of
his
late
receiued
ioyes
,
doth
as
it
were
ease
the
hart
of
burden
,
and
ad
vnto
the
mynd
a
fresh
supplie
of
delight
,
yea
and
in
verse
principally
(
as
I
conceyue
)
a
man
may
best
contriue
this
way
of
comforte
in
him selfe
.
Therfore
as
I
haue
sayde
F.
I.
swymming
now
in
delightes
did
nothing
but
write
such
verse
as
might
accumilate
his
ioyes
,
to
the
extremitie
of
pleasure
,
the
which
for
that
purpose
he
kept
from
mée
,
as
one
more
desirous
to
séeme
obscure
and
defectiue
,
than
ouermuch
to
glory
in
his
aduentures
,
especially
for
that
in
the
end
his
hap
was
as
heauie
,
has
hitherto
he
had
bene
fortunate
,
amongst
other
I
remembred
one
hapned
vppon
this
occasion
.
The
husband
of
the
Lady
Elynor
be-being
all
this
while
absent
from
hir
,
gan
now
retorne
,
&
kept
Cut
at
home
,
with
whom
F.I.
found
meanes
so
to
ensignuate
himselfe
,
that
familiaritie
tooke
déepe
●oot●
betwene
them
,
and
seldome
but
by
●●elth
you
could
●●nde
the
one
out
of
the
others
company
.
On
a
tyme
the
knight
ryding
on
hunting
desired
F.
I.
to
accompany
him
,
the
which
he
could
not
refuse
to
do
,
but
like
a
lusty
younker
,
readie
at
all
assayes
,
apparrelled
him selfe
in
gréene
,
and
about
his
neck
a
Bugle
,
pricking
&
gallowping
amongst
the
formost
,
according
to
the
mannor
of
that
countrie
.
And
it
chaūced
that
the
maried
Knight
thus
gallowping
lost
his
horn
,
which
some
deuines
might
haue
interpreted
to
be
but
moulting
,
&
that
by
Gods
grace
,
he
might
haue
a
newe
come
vp
againe
shortly
in
stéede
of
that
.
Wel
,
he
came
to
F.
I.
requiring
him
to
lend
him
his
▪
Beugle
,
for
(
sayd
the
Knight
)
I
hard
you
not
blowe
this
daye
,
and
I
would
fayne
encourage
the
houndes
,
if
I
had
a
horne
.
Quod
F.
I.
although
I
haue
not
ben
ouer
lauishe
of
my
comming
hitherto
,
I
woulde
you
shoulde
not
doubt
but
that
I
can
tell
howe
to
vse
a
horne
well
enough
,
and
yet
I
may
little
do
if
I
maye
not
lende
you
a
horne
,
and
therewithall
tooke
his
Beugle
from
his
necke
,
and
lent
it
to
the
Knight
,
who
making
in
vnto
the
houndes
,
gan
assaye
to
rechate
:
but
the
horne
was
to
hard
for
him
to
wynde
,
whereat
F.
I.
tooke
pleasure
,
and
sayde
to
him selfe
,
blowe
tyll
thou
breake
that
:
I
made
thee
one
with
in
these
fewe
dayes
,
that
thou
wilt
neuer
cracke
whiles
thou
liuest
.
And
hereupon
(
before
the
fal
of
the
Buck
)
deuised
this
Sonet
following
,
which
at
his
home
comming
he
presented
vnto
his
mistresse
.
G.
T.
As
some
men
say
there
is
a
kind
of
seed
Will
grow
to
hornes
if
it
be
sowed
thick
:
Wherwith
I
thought
to
trye
if
I
could
breed
A
brood
of
buddes
,
well
sharped
on
the
prick
:
And
by
good
proofe
of
learned
skill
I
found
,
(
As
on
some
speciall
soyle
all
seedes
best
frame
)
So
ielouse
braynes
doe
breed
the
battle
ground
,
That
best
of
all
might
serue
to
beare
the
same
.
Then
sought
I
foorth
to
find
such
supple
soyle
,
And
cald
to
mynd
thy
husband
had
a
brayne
,
So
that
percase
,
by
trauayll
and
by
toyle
,
His
fruitfull
front
might
turne
my
seed
to
gayne
:
And
as
I
groped
In
that
ground
to
sowe
it
,
Start
vp
a
horne
,
thy
husband
could
not
blow
it
.
F.I.
THis
Sonet
treateth
of
a
straung
séede
,
but
it
tasteth
most
of
Rye
,
which
is
more
cōmon
amongst
mē
nowadays
:
wel
let
it
passe
amōgst
the
rest
,
&
he
that
liketh
it
not
,
turn
ouer
the
leaf
to
another
,
I
dout
not
but
in
this
register
he
may
find
some
to
content
him
,
vnlesse
he
be
to
curious
:
and
here
I
will
surcease
to
rehearse
any
more
of
his
verses
,
vntill
I
haue
expressed
how
that
his
ioyes
being
now
exalted
to
the
highest
degrée
,
began
to
bend
towardes
declination
.
For
now
the
vnhappy
Secretary
whom
I
haue
before
remembred
,
was
returned
from
London
,
on
whō
F.I.
had
no
sooner
cast
his
eyes
,
but
immediatly
he
fel
into
a
great
passion
of
mynd
,
which
might
be
compared
vnto
a
feauer
.
This
fruit
grew
of
the
good
instructions
that
his
Hope
had
planted
in
his
mind
,
whereby
I
might
take
iust
occasion
to
forwarn
euery
louer
,
how
they
suffer
this
venemous
serpent
ielousie
to
créepe
into
their
conceipts
:
for
surely
,
of
all
other
diseases
in
loue
,
I
suppose
that
to
be
vncurable
,
and
would
hold
longer
discourse
therin
,
were
it
not
that
both
this
tale
and
the
verses
of
F.
I.
himselfe
hereafter
to
be
recited
,
shal
be
sufficient
to
speak
for
me
in
this
behalf
.
The
louer
(
as
I
say
vpon
the
sodein
)
was
drouen
into
such
a
malladie
,
as
no
meate
might
nourish
his
body
,
no
delights
please
his
minde
,
no
remembrance
of
ioyes
forepassed
content
him
,
nor
any
hope
of
the
lyke
to
come
might
recomfort
him
:
hereat
(
some
vnto
whom
I
haue
imparted
this
tale
)
haue
takē
occasion
to
discōmend
his
faynting
hart
,
yit
surely
the
cause
inwardly
,
&
depely
considered
,
I
cannot
so
lightly
condempne
him
,
for
an
old
saying
is
,
that
euery
man
can
giue
councell
better
than
follow
it
:
and
néeds
must
the
conflicts
of
his
thoughts
be
straunge
,
betwene
the
remembraunce
of
his
forepassed
pleasure
,
and
the
present
sight
of
this
monster
whom
before
(
for
lack
of
like
instruction
)
he
had
not
so
throughly
marked
and
beh●l●
.
Well
,
such
was
the
grief
vnto
him
,
that
he
became
sickly
and
kept
his
chamber
.
The
Ladies
hauing
receyued
the
newes
therof
,
gan
al
at
once
lament
his
misfortun
,
and
of
common
consent
agréed
to
visit
him
:
they
marched
thither
in
good
equipage
,
I
warrant
you
,
and
found
F.
I.
lying
vpon
his
bed
languishing
,
whō
they
all
saluted
generally
,
and
sought
to
recomforte
,
but
especially
his
Mistresse
,
hauing
in
hir
hand
a
braunch
of
willow
,
wherewith
thée
defended
hir
from
the
whot
ayre
,
gā
thus
say
vnto
him
:
Seruaunt
(
quod
she
)
for
that
I
suppose
your
mallady
to
procéede
of
none
other
cause
but
only
slouthfulnesse
,
I
haue
brought
this
preaty
rod
to
beate
you
a
little
:
nothing
doubting
,
but
when
you
féele
the
smart
of
a
twig
or
twayne
,
you
will
like
a
tractable
yong
scholler
,
pluck
vp
your
quickned
spirits
,
&
cast
this
drowsines
apart
.
F.
I.
with
a
great
sighe
answered
:
Alas
good
Mistres
(
quod
he
)
if
any
like
chastisement
might
quicken
me
,
how
m●ch
more
might
the
presence
of
all
you
louely
Dames
?
recomfort
my
dulled
mynd
whō
to
behold
▪
were
sufficien●
to
reuiue
an
eye
now
dazled
with
the
dread
of
death
,
and
that
not
onely
for
the
heauenly
aspectes
which
you
represent
,
but
also
much
the
more
for
your
excéeding
curtesie
,
in
that
you
haue
deigned
to
visit
mée
so
vnworthy
a
seruaunt
:
But
good
Mistres
(
quod
he
)
as
it
were
shame
for
me
to
confesse
that
euer
my
hart
could
yéelde
for
feare
,
so
I
assure
you
that
my
minde
cannot
be
content
to
induce
infirmitie
by
sluggish
conceyt
:
But
in
trueth
Mistresse
I
am
sicke
(
quod
he
)
,
and
there
withall
the
trembling
of
his
hart
had
sent
vp
such
throbbing
into
his
throte
,
as
that
his
voyce
(
now
depriued
of
breath
)
cōmaunded
the
tong
to
be
still
.
When
Dame
Elynor
for
compassion
distilled
into
teares
,
and
drew
towards
the
window
,
leauing
the
other
Gentlewomē
about
his
bed
,
who
beinge
no
lesse
sory
for
his
grief
,
yit
for
that
they
were
none
of
them
so
touched
in
their
secrete
thoughtes
,
they
had
bolder
sprits
and
fréeer
spéech
to
recomfort
him
:
amongest
the
rest
the
Lady
Fraunces
,
(
who
in
deede
loued
him
déepely
,
and
could
best
coniecture
the
cause
of
his
cōceipts
)
said
vnto
him
:
Good
Trust
(
quod
shée
)
if
any
helpe
of
Phisick
may
cure
your
maladie
,
I
would
not
haue
you
hurt
your selfe
with
these
doubts
which
you
séeme
to
retayne
:
If
choice
of
Dyet
may
helpe
,
behold
vs
here
(
your
cookes
)
ready
to
minister
all
things
néedfull
:
if
company
may
dryue
away
your
anoye
,
wee
meane
not
to
leaue
you
solitary
:
if
grief
of
mynde
be
cause
of
your
infirmitie
,
wée
all
here
will
offer
our
deuoyre
to
turne
it
into
ioye
:
if
mishap
haue
giuen
you
cause
to
feare
or
dreade
any
thing
,
remember
Hope
,
which
neuer
fayleth
to
recomfort
an
afflicted
mind
.
And
good
Trust
(
quod
she
)
(
distreining
his
hand
right
hartely
)
let
this
simple
profe
of
our
poore
good
willes
be
so
accepted
of
you
,
as
that
●t
may
work
therby
the
effect
of
our
desires
.
F.
I.
(
as
one
in
a
traunce
)
had
marked
very
litle
of
hir
curteouse
talke
,
and
yet
gaue
hir
thanks
,
and
so
held
his
peace
:
whereat
the
Ladies
(
being
all
amazed
)
there
became
a
silence
in
the
chamber
on
all
sides
.
Dame
Elynor
fearing
thereby
that
she
might
the
more
easely
be
espyed
,
and
hauing
nowe
dryed
vp
hir
teares
,
returned
to
F.
I.
recomforting
him
by
al
possible
meanes
of
common
curtesie
,
promising
that
since
in
hir
sicknes
he
had
not
only
staūched
hir
bléeding
,
but
also
by
his
gentle
company
and
sundry
deuices
of
honest
pastime
had
dryuē
away
the
pensiuenes
of
hir
mind
,
she
thought
hir selfe
bound
with
like
willingnes
to
do
hir
best
in
any
thing
that
might
restore
his
health
?
and
taking
him
by
the
hand
sayd
further
:
Good
seruaunt
,
if
thou
beare
in
déed
any
true
affection
to
thy
poore
Mistres
,
start
vpon
thy
féet
agayn
,
and
let
hir
enioye
thyne
accustomed
seruice
to
hir
comfort
,
for
sure
(
quod
shée
)
I
will
neuer
leaue
to
visite
this
chamber
once
in
a
day
,
vntill
I
may
haue
thée
down
with
mée
.
F.
I.
hearing
the
harty
words
of
his
Mistres
,
and
perceyuing
the
earnest
maner
of
hir
pronunciation
,
began
to
receyue
vnspeakable
comfort
in
the
same
,
and
sayde
.
Mistres
,
your
excéeding
curtesie
were
able
to
reuiue
a
man
half
dead
,
and
to
me
it
is
both
great
comfort
,
and
it
doth
also
gald
my
remembraunce
with
a
continuall
smart
of
myn
own
vnworthinesse
:
but
as
I
would
desire
no
longer
lyfe
,
than
til
I
might
be
able
to
deserue
some
part
of
your
bounty
,
so
I
will
ende●our
my selfe
to
liue
,
were
it
but
onely
vnto
that
ende
,
that
I
might
merit
some
part
of
your
fauour
with
acceptable
seruice
,
and
requite
some
deale
the
courtesie
of
all
these
other
faire
Ladies
,
who
haue
so
farre
(
aboue
my
desertes
)
deigned
to
do
me
good
.
Thus
said
,
the
Ladies
tarried
not
long
before
they
were
called
to
Euensong
,
when
his
Mistres
taking
his
hand
,
kissed
it
saying
:
Farewell
good
seruaunt
,
and
I
pray
thée
suffer
not
the
malice
of
thy
sicknesse
to
ouercome
the
gentlenes
of
thy
good
hart
.
F.I.
rauished
with
ioy
,
suffered
them
all
to
depart
,
and
was
not
able
to
pronounce
one
word
.
After
their
departure
,
hée
gan
cast
in
his
mind
the
excéeding
curtesie
vsed
towards
him
by
them
all
:
but
aboue
all
other
the
bounty
of
his
Mistresse
,
and
therewithall
tooke
a
sounde
and
firme
opinion
,
that
it
was
not
possible
for
hir
to
coūterfeit
so
déeply
(
as
in
déed
I
beléeue
that
she
then
did
not
)
whereby
he
sodenly
felt
his
hart
greatly
eased
,
and
began
in
himselfe
thus
to
reason
.
Was
euer
man
of
so
wretched
a
harte
?
I
am
the
most
bounden
to
loue
(
quod
he
)
of
all
them
that
euer
professed
his
seruice
,
I
enioy
one
the
fayrest
that
euer
was
found
,
and
I
find
hir
the
kindest
that
euer
was
heard
of
:
yit
in
myne
owne
wicked
hart
I
could
villaynously
conceiue
that
of
hir
,
which
being
compared
with
the
rest
of
hir
vertues
is
not
possible
to
harbour
in
so
noble
a
mind
.
Hereby
I
haue
brought
my self
without
cause
into
this
féeblenes
,
and
good
reason
that
for
so
high
an
offence
I
should
be
punished
with
great
infirmitie
:
what
shall
I
then
doe
?
yéeld
to
the
same
?
no
,
but
according
to
my
late
protestation
I
will
recomfort
this
languishing
mind
of
myne
,
to
the
end
I
may
liue
but
onely
to
doe
penaunce
for
this
so
notable
a
crime
so
rashly
committed
:
and
thus
saying
,
he
start
from
his
bed
,
and
gan
to
walke
towards
the
window
:
but
the
venimous
serpent
which
(
as
before
I
rehearsed
)
had
stong
him
,
could
not
bee
content
that
these
medicines
applied
by
the
mouth
of
his
gentle
Mistresse
,
should
so
soone
restore
him
to
guerison
.
And
although
in
déed
they
were
such
Mythrydate
to
F.
I.
as
that
they
had
nowe
expelled
the
rancour
of
the
poyson
,
yit
that
ougly
hellish
monster
had
left
behinde
hir
in
the
most
secret
of
his
bosome
,
(
euen
betwene
the
mynd
and
the
man
)
one
of
hir
familiars
named
Suspect
,
which
gan
work
in
the
weake
sprites
of
F.
I.
efects
of
no
lesse
perill
than
before
hée
had
conceyued
:
his
head
swelling
with
these
troublesome
toyes
,
and
his
hart
swimming
in
the
tempests
of
tossing
fantasie
:
he
felt
his
legges
so
féeble
,
that
he
was
cōstrained
to
lye
down
on
his
bed
again
,
and
repeating
in
his
own
remembraunce
euery
woord
that
his
Mistres
had
spoken
vnto
him
,
he
gan
to
dreade
,
that
she
had
brought
the
willow
braunch
to
beate
him
with
,
in
token
that
he
was
of
hir
forsaken
:
for
so
louers
doe
most
commonly
expound
the
will●
we
garland
,
and
this
to
think
,
did
cut
his
hart
in
twayne
.
A
wonderfull
chaunge
:
and
here
a
little
to
stay
you
,
I
will
discribe
(
for
I
think
you
haue
not
red
it
in
Ariosto
)
the
beginning
,
the
fall
,
the
retourne
,
and
the
bying
of
this
hellish
byrd
,
who
in
déed
may
well
be
counted
a
very
limbe
of
the
Diuill
.
Many
yeares
since
,
one
of
the
most
dreadful
dastards
in
the
world
,
and
one
of
them
that
first
deuised
to
weare
his
beard
at
length
,
least
the
barbor
might
do
him
a
good
turne
sooner
than
he
looked
for
it
,
and
yit
not
so
soone
as
he
deserued
,
had
builded
for
his
securitie
a
pile
on
the
hyghest
and
most
inaccessible
mount
of
all
his
Territories
:
the
which
being
fortified
with
strong
walles
,
and
enuironed
with
déepe
ditches
,
had
no
place
of
entrie
,
but
one
onely
doore
so
streight
and
narrow
,
as
might
by
any
possibility
receiue
the
body
of
one
liuing
man
,
from
which
he
ascended
vp
a
ladder
,
&
so
créeping
thorough
a
maruelous
strayt
hole
,
attained
to
his
lodging
,
the
which
was
so
dark
&
obscure
,
as
scarcely
either
sunne
or
ayre
could
enter
into
it
:
thus
hee
deuised
to
lodge
in
safetie
,
and
for
the
more
suertie
gan
trust
none
other
letting
downe
this
ladder
but
only
his
wife
,
and
at
the
foote
therof
kept
alwaies
by
day
light
,
a
firce
masti●
close
enkeneled
which
neuer
sawe
nor
heard
the
face
or
voyce
of
any
other
creature
but
onely
of
them
two
,
him
by
night
he
trusted
with
the
scout
of
this
prety
passage
,
hauing
neuerthelesse
betwene
him
and
this
dogge
,
a
double
doore
with
treble
locks
,
quadriple
barres
:
and
before
all
a
port
coulez
of
Iron
:
neyther
yit
could
he
be
so
hardy
as
to
sléep
vntil
he
had
caused
a
gard
of
seruauntes
(
whome
hée
kept
abroade
for
that
purpose
)
to
searche
all
the
corners
adioyning
to
his
fortresse
,
and
then
betwene
fearfull
sweate
and
chyuering
cold
,
with
one
eye
open
and
the
other
closed
,
he
stole
somtimes
a
broken
sléepe
,
deuided
with
many
terrible
dream●s
.
In
this
sort
the
wretch
liued
all
to
long
,
vntill
at
last
his
wife
being
not
able
any
longer
to
supporte
this
hellish
life
,
grew
so
hardy
,
as
with
his
owne
knife
to
dispatch
his
carkas
out
of
this
earthly
purgatory
:
the
which
being
done
his
soule
(
and
good
reason
)
was
quickly
conueyed
by
Carone
vnto
hell
:
there
Radamanthus
Iudge
of
that
benche
,
commaunded
him
quickly
to
be
thrust
into
a
boyling
poole
:
and
being
therein
plonged
very
often
,
he
neuer
shriked
or
cryed
,
I
skalde
,
as
his
other
companions
there
cried
,
but
séemed
so
lightly
to
estéeme
it
,
that
the
Iudge
thought
méete
to
condempne
him
vnto
the
most
terrible
place
,
where
are
such
torments
,
as
neyther
penne
can
write
,
tongue
expresse
,
or
thought
conceyue
:
but
the
myser
(
euen
there
)
seemed
to
smyle
and
to
make
small
accompt
of
his
punishment
.
Radamanthus
hereof
enformed
▪
sent
for
him
,
and
demaunded
the
cause
why
he
made
so
light
of
his
durance
?
he
aunswered
that
whyles
he
liued
on
earth
,
he
was
so
continually
afflicted
and
oppressed
with
suspicion
,
as
that
now
(
only
to
thinke
that
he
was
out
of
those
meditacions
)
was
sufficient
armour
to
defend
him
from
all
other
torments
.
Radamanthus
a●●onied
hereat
,
gan
call
togither
the
Senators
of
that
kingdome
,
and
propounded
this
question
,
how
&
by
what
punishement
they
might
deuise
to
touche
him
according
to
his
deserts
?
and
herupō
fell
great
disputation
,
at
last
being
cōsidered
that
he
had
already
bin
plonged
in
the
most
vnspeakable
torments
,
&
therat
litle
or
nothing
had
chaunged
coūtenāce
,
therwithall
that
no
soule
was
sent
vnto
thē
to
be
relieued
of
his
smart
,
but
rather
to
be
punished
for
his
former
delights
:
it
was
cōcluded
by
the
general
councel
,
that
he
shold
be
eftsones
sent
into
the
world
&
restored
to
the
same
body
wherein
he
first
had
his
resiance
,
so
to
remain
for
perpetuity
,
and
neuer
to
depart
nor
to
perish
.
Thus
this
body
and
soule
being
once
againe
vnited
,
and
now
eftsones
with
the
same
pestilence
infected
,
hée
became
of
a
suspicious
man
Suspicion
it selfe
:
and
now
the
wretch
remembring
the
treason
of
his
wyfe
,
who
had
so
willingly
dispatched
him
once
before
,
gan
vtterly
abhor
hir
and
fled
hir
company
,
searching
in
all
countries
some
place
of
better
assurance
:
and
when
hée
had
in
vayn
trode
on
the
most
part
of
the
earth
,
he
embarked
himself
to
find
some
vnknowen
Iland
wherein
hée
might
frame
s●me
new
habitacion
,
and
finding
none
so
commodious
as
hée
desired
,
he
fortuned
(
sayling
along
by
the
shoare
)
to
espie
a
rock
,
more
than
sixe
hundreth
Cubits
high
,
which
hong
so
suspiciously
ouer
the
seas
,
as
though
it
would
threaten
to
fall
at
euery
little
blast
:
this
did
Suspicion
Imagine
to
be
a
fit
foundacion
whereon
he
might
buyld
his
second
Bower
:
hée
forsooke
his
boate
,
and
trauayled
by
land
to
espie
what
entrie
or
accesse
might
be
made
vnto
the
same
,
and
found
from
land
no
maner
of
entrie
or
accesse
,
vnlesse
it
were
that
some
curteouse
Byrd
of
the
ayre
would
be
Ambassadour
,
or
conuey
some
Engins
,
as
whilom
the
Eagle
did
carrie
Ganymedes
into
heauen
.
He
then
returned
to
Seas
,
and
approching
néere
to
his
rock
,
founde
a
small
streame
of
fresh
water
issuing
out
of
the
same
into
the
Seas
:
the
which
,
although
it
were
so
little
and
so
straight
,
as
might
vnethes
receiue
a
boate
of
bignes
to
carry
one
liuing
creature
at
once
,
yit
in
his
conceipt
hée
thought
it
more
large
and
spacious
than
that
broad
way
called
of
our
forefathers
Via
appia
,
or
than
that
other
named
Flaminia
:
hée
abandoned
his
bark
,
and
putting
of
hys
clothes
,
aduētured
(
for
he
was
now
assured
not
to
drown
)
to
wade
and
swim
against
the
streame
of
this
vnknown
brooke
,
the
which
(
a
wondrous
thing
to
tell
,
and
skarcely
to
be
beléeued
)
came
down
from
the
very
top
and
height
of
this
rock
:
and
by
the
way
he
found
six
straight
&
dangerous
places
,
wher
the
water
séemed
to
stay
his
course
,
passing
vnder
sixe
straight
and
lowe
bridges
,
and
hard
by
euery
of
those
places
,
a
pyle
raysed
vp
in
manner
of
a
Bulworke
,
the
which
were
hollow
,
in
such
sort
as
lodginges
and
other
places
necessary
might
in
them
commodiously
be
deuised
,
by
such
one
as
coulde
endure
the
hellishnes
of
the
place
.
Passing
by
these
hée
attayned
with
much
payne
vnto
the
toppe
of
the
Rocke
,
the
which
hée
found
hollowed
as
the
rest
,
and
farre
more
fit
for
his
securitie
,
than
otherwise
apt
for
any
cōmoditie
.
There
gan
suspicion
determyne
to
nestle
him selfe
,
and
hauing
now
placed
six
chosen
porters
,
to
wit
,
(
Dread
,
Mistrust
,
Wrath
,
Desperation
,
Frensie
,
and
Fury
:
)
at
these
six
straunge
Bulworks
,
he
lodged
him self
in
the
vij
.
al
alone
,
for
he
trusted
no
companye
,
but
euer
mistrustinge
that
his
wyfe
should
eftsones
find
him
out
,
therein
he
shrieketh
continually
like
to
a
shrich
owle
to
keepe
the
watch
waking
,
neuer
content
to
sléepe
by
day
or
by
night
.
But
to
be
sure
that
he
shoulde
not
ouer
sléepe
him selfe
,
gan
stuffe
his
●ouch
with
Porpentines
quilles
,
to
the
ende
that
when
heauy
sleepe
ouercame
him
,
and
he
therby
should
be
constrayned
to
charge
his
pallad
with
more
heauie
burden
,
those
plumes
might
then
pricke
through
and
so
awake
him
.
His
garments
were
stéele
vpon
Iron
,
and
that
Iron
vppon
Iron
,
and
Iron
againe
,
and
the
more
he
was
armed
,
the
lesse
he
trusted
to
be
out
of
daunger
.
He
chopped
and
changed
continually
now
this
,
now
that
,
new
keyes
,
new
lockes
,
ditches
newe
skowred
,
and
walles
newly
fortified
,
and
thus
alwayes
vncontented
liueth
this
wretched
helhound
Suspicion
in
this
hellish
dungion
of
habitation
,
from
whence
he
neuer
remoueth
his
foote
,
but
only
in
the
dead
&
silent
nights
,
when
he
may
be
assured
that
all
creatures
(
but
him selfe
)
are
whelmed
in
sound
sléepe
.
And
then
with
stealing
steps
he
stalketh
about
the
earth
,
enfecting
,
tormēting
,
and
ve●ing
al
kinds
of
people
with
some
part
of
his
afflictions
,
but
especially
such
as
either
do
sit
in
chayre
of
greatest
dignitie
and
estimation
,
or
els
such
as
haue
atchiued
some
déere
and
rare
emprise
:
Those
aboue
al
others
he
contynually
galdeth
with
fresh
woūds
of
dread
,
least
they
might
loose
and
forgo
the
roomes
wherunto
with
such
long
trauayle
and
good
happes
they
had
atteyned
,
and
by
this
meanes
percase
he
had
crept
into
the
bosome
of
F.I.
who
(
as
is
before
declared
)
did
earst
swimme
in
the
déepest
seas
of
earthly
delightes
.
Nowe
then
I
must
thinke
it
high
time
to
retorne
vnto
him
,
who
being
now
through
feeblenes
eftsones
cast
downe
vppon
his
be●
,
gan
cast
in
his
inward
meditations
all
thinges
passed
,
and
as
one
throughly
puffed
vp
and
filled
with
one
péeuishe
conceipt
,
could
thinke
vppon
nothing
elles
,
and
yet
accusing
his
owne
giltie
conscience
to
be
infected
with
ielosie
,
did
compyle
this
translation
of
Ariostoes
xxxi
.
song
as
followeth
.
WHat
state
to
man
,
so
sweete
and
pleasaunt
w●re
,
As
to
be
tyed
,
in
lincks
of
worthy
loue
?
What
life
so
blist
and
happie
might
appere
,
As
for
to
serue
Cupid
that
God
aboue
?
If
that
our
mindes
were
not
sometimes
infect
,
With
dread
,
with
feare
,
with
care
,
with
cold
suspect
▪
With
deepe
dispayre
,
with
furious
frensie
,
Handmaydes
to
hir
,
whom
we
call
iellosie
.
For
eu'ry
other
sop
of
sower
chaunce
,
Which
louers
tast
amid
their
sweete
delight
:
Encreaseth
ioye
,
and
doth
their
loue
aduaunce
,
In
pleasures
place
,
to
haue
more
perfect
plight
.
The
thirstie
mouth
thinkes
water
hath
good
taste
,
The
hungrie
iawes
,
are
pleas'd
,
with
ech
repaste
:
Who
hath
not
prou'd
what
dearth
by
warres
doth
growe
,
Cannot
of
peace
the
pleasaunt
plenties
knowe
.
And
though
with
eye
,
we
see
not
eu'ry
ioye
▪
Yet
may
the
mind
,
full
well
support
the
same
,
An
absent
life
long
led
in
great
anoye
,
When
presence
comes
,
doth
turne
from
griefe
to
game
,
To
serue
without
reward
is
thought
great
payne
,
But
if
dispayre
do
not
therewith
remayne
,
It
may
be
borne
,
for
right
rewardes
at
last
,
Followe
true
seruice
,
though
they
come
not
fast
.
Disdaynes
,
repulses
,
finally
eche
yll
,
Eche
smart
,
eche
payne
,
of
loue
eche
bitter
tast
,
To
thinke
on
them
gan
frame
the
louers
will
,
To
like
eche
ioye
,
the
more
that
comes
at
last
:
But
this
infernall
plague
if
once
it
toutche
,
Or
venome
once
the
louers
mind
with
grutch
,
All
feastes
and
ioyes
that
afterwardes
befall
,
The
louer
compts
them
light
or
nought
at
all
.
This
is
that
sore
,
this
is
that
poysoned
wound
,
The
which
to
heale
,
nor
salue
,
nor
oyntments
serue
,
Nor
charme
of
wordes
,
nor
Image
can
be
found
,
Nor
obseruance
of
starres
can
it
preserue
,
Nor
all
the
art
of
Magicke
can
preuayle
,
Which
Zoroastes
found
for
our
auayle
.
Oh
cruell
plague
,
aboue
all
sorrowes
smart
,
With
desperate
death
thou
sleast
the
louers
hart
.
And
me
euen
now
,
thy
gall
hath
so
enfect
,
As
all
the
ioyes
which
euer
louer
found
,
And
all
good
haps
,
that
euer
Troylus
sect
,
Atchiued
yet
aboue
the
luckles
ground
:
Can
neuer
sweeten
once
my
mouth
with
mell
,
Nor
bring
my
thoughts
,
againe
in
rest
to
dwell
.
Of
thy
mad
moodes
,
and
of
naught
elles
I
thinke
,
In
such
like
seas
,
fayre
Bradamant
did
sincke
.
F.
I.
THis
is
the
translation
of
Ariosto
his
xxxj
.
song
,
all
but
the
last
staffe
,
which
séemeth
as
an
allegory
applied
to
the
rest
.
It
will
please
none
but
learned
eares
,
hée
was
tyed
to
the
inuention
,
troubled
in
mynd
&c
.
So
I
leaue
it
to
your
iudgment
,
and
returne
to
F.I.
who
continued
on
his
bed
,
vntill
his
bountifull
Mistresse
with
the
companie
of
the
other
curteous
dames
retorned
after
supper
to
his
chamber
,
at
their
first
entrie
:
Why
how
now
seruāt
(
quod
dame
Elynor
)
we
hoped
to
haue
found
you
on
foote
?
Mistresse
quod
F.I.
I
haue
assayed
my
féete
since
your
departure
,
but
I
find
them
yet
vnable
to
suporte
my
heauy
body
,
and
therfore
am
constrayned
as
you
sée
,
to
acquaint
my selfe
with
these
pyllowes
.
Seruaunt
sayd
she
I
am
right
sory
therof
,
but
since
it
is
of
necessitie
to
beare
sicknesse
,
I
will
employ
my
deuoyre
to
allaye
some
parte
of
your
paynes
,
and
to
refreshe
your
weary
limbes
with
some
comfortable
matter
:
and
therwithall
calling
hir
handmayde
,
deliuered
vnto
hir
a
bounche
of
pretie
little
keyes
,
and
whispering
in
hir
eare
,
dispatched
hir
towards
hir
chamber
.
The
mayde
taried
not
long
,
but
returned
with
a
little
Casket
,
the
which
hir
Mistresse
toke
,
opened
and
drew
out
of
the
same
much
fyne
lynnen
,
amongst
the
which
she
toke
a
pillowhere
very
fyne
and
swéete
,
which
although
it
were
of
it selfe
as
swéete
as
might
be
,
being
of
long
time
kept
in
that
odoriferous
chest
,
yet
did
shée
with
damaske
water
(
and
that
the
best
that
might
bée
I
warrant
you
)
all
to
sprinckle
it
with
hir
owne
handes
,
which
in
my
conceipt
might
much
amende
the
matter
.
Then
calling
for
a
fresh
pyllowe
,
sent
hir
mayde
to
ayre
the
same
,
and
at
hir
returne
put
on
this
,
thus
perfumed
pillowheare
.
In
meane
time
also
she
had
with
hir
owne
hands
attyred
hir
seruants
head
in
a
fayre
wrought
kerchif
taken
out
of
the
same
Casket
,
then
layde
him
downe
vppon
this
fresh
and
pleasaunt
place
,
and
pretely
as
it
were
in
sporte
,
bedewed
his
temples
with
swéete
water
which
she
had
ready
in
a
casting
bottle
of
Gold
,
kissing
his
chéeke
and
saying
:
Good
seruaunt
be
whole
,
for
I
might
not
longe
endure
thus
to
attende
thée
,
and
yit
the
loue
that
I
beare
towards
thée
,
cannot
be
content
to
see
thée
languish
:
Mistres
sayd
F.I.
(
and
that
with
a
trembling
voyce
)
assure
your self
,
that
if
there
remayn
in
mée
any
sparke
of
lyfe
or
possibilitie
of
recouery
,
then
may
this
excellent
bountie
of
yours
be
sufficient
to
reuiue
me
without
any
further
trauayle
or
payn
vnto
your
persone
,
for
whom
I
am
highly
to
blame
,
in
that
I
do
not
spare
to
put
you
vnto
this
trouble
:
and
better
if
were
that
such
a
wretch
as
I
had
dyed
vnknowen
,
than
thay
by
your
exceding
curtesie
you
should
fall
into
any
mallady
,
eyther
by
resorting
vnto
me
,
or
by
these
your
paynes
taken
about
me
.
Seruaunt
(
quod
she
)
all
pleasures
séeme
paynefull
to
them
that
take
no
delight
therin
,
and
likewise
all
toyle
séemeth
pleasaunt
to
such
as
set
their
felicitie
in
the
same
,
but
for
mee
be
you
sure
,
I
do
it
with
so
good
a
wyll
that
I
can
take
no
hurt
therby
,
vnlesse
I
shall
perceyue
that
it
be
reiected
or
neglected
,
as
vnprofitable
or
vncomfortable
vnto
you
.
To
me
Mistresse
quod
F.I.
it
is
such
pleasure
,
as
neither
my
féeble
tongue
can
expresse
,
nor
my
troubled
mind
conceyue
.
Why
?
are
you
troubled
in
mynd
then
seruaunt
quod
dame
Elynor
?
F.
I
now
blushing
answered
,
but
euen
as
all
sicke
men
be
Mistresse
.
Herewith
they
staid
their
talke
a
while
,
and
the
first
that
brake
silence
was
the
Lady
Fraunces
,
who
sayde
:
and
to
driue
away
the
troubles
of
your
mynd
good
Trust
,
I
wold
be
glad
if
we
could
deuise
some
pastime
amongst
vs
to
kepe
you
company
,
for
I
remember
that
with
such
deuises
you
did
greatly
recomfort
this
fayre
Lady
when
shée
languished
in
like
sorte
.
She
languished
in
déede
gentle
Hope
,
quod
F.I.
but
God
forbid
that
she
had
languished
in
like
sort
.
Euery
body
thinketh
their
griefe
greatest
qd
dame
Elynor
,
but
in
déede
whether
my
griefe
were
the
more
or
the
lesse
,
I
am
right
sorie
that
youres
is
such
as
it
is
:
And
to
assay
whither
our
passions
proceded
of
like
cause
or
not
,
I
would
we
could
(
according
to
this
Ladies
saying
)
deuise
some
like
pastimes
to
trie
if
your
malladie
would
be
cured
with
like
medicines
.
A
gentle
woman
of
the
company
whom
I
haue
not
hitherto
named
,
and
that
for
good
respects
,
least
hir
name
might
altogether
disclose
the
rest
,
gan
thus
propound
.
We
haue
accustomed
(
quod
she
)
heretofore
in
most
of
our
games
to
chuse
a
Kyng
or
Quéene
,
and
he
or
she
during
their
gouernement
haue
charged
euery
of
vs
eyther
with
commaundementes
or
questions
as
best
séemed
to
their
maiestie
:
wherein
to
speake
mine
opinion
we
haue
giuen
ouer
large
a
skope
,
neyther
séemeth
it
reasonable
that
one
shoulde
haue
the
power
to
discouer
the
thoughts
▪
or
at
least
to
brydle
the
affects
of
all
the
rest
.
And
though
in
déede
in
questioning
(
which
doth
of
the
twayne
more
nerely
touche
the
mind
)
euery
one
is
at
free
libertie
to
aunswere
what
they
list
:
yet
oft
haue
I
heard
a
question
demaunded
in
such
sorte
,
and
vppon
such
sodayne
,
that
it
hath
bene
hardly
answered
without
mouing
matter
of
contention
.
And
in
commaundes
also
,
sometimes
it
happeneth
one
to
bée
commaunded
vnto
such
seruice
,
as
eyther
they
are
vnfit
to
accomplish
(
and
then
the
parties
weakenes
is
therby
detected
)
or
els
to
do
something
that
they
would
not
,
wherof
ensueth
more
grutch
then
game
.
Wherefore
in
myne
opinion
,
we
shall
do
well
to
chuse
by
lot
amongst
vs
a
gouernour
,
who
for
that
it
shal
be
sufficient
preheminence
to
vse
the
chayre
of
maiestie
,
shal
be
boūd
to
giue
sentence
vppon
all
such
arguments
and
questions
as
we
shall
orderly
propound
vnto
them
,
and
from
him
or
hir
(
as
from
an
oracle
)
we
will
receiue
aunswere
,
and
decyding
of
our
lytigious
causes
.
This
dame
had
stuffe
in
hir
,
an
old
courtier
,
and
a
wylie
wench
,
whome
for
this
discourse
I
will
name
Pergo
,
least
hir
name
natural
were
to
brode
before
,
and
might
not
drinke
of
all
waters
.
Wel
this
proportion
of
Pergo
pleased
them
wel
,
and
by
lot
it
happened
that
F.I.
must
be
moderator
of
these
matters
,
and
collector
of
these
causes
:
the
which
being
so
constituted
,
the
Lady
Elynor
said
vnto
this
dame
Pergo
.
You
haue
deuised
this
pastime
(
qd
she
)
&
because
we
thinke
you
to
be
most
expert
in
the
handling
therof
,
do
you
propound
the
first
question
,
&
we
shal
be
both
the
more
readye
and
able
to
followe
your
example
:
the
Lady
Pergo
refused
not
,
but
began
on
this
wise
.
Noble
gouernor
(
qd
she
)
amongst
the
aduentures
that
haue
befallen
me
,
I
remember
especially
this
one
,
that
in
youth
it
was
my
chaunce
to
be
beloued
of
a
very
courtlike
young
gentleman
,
who
abode
neare
the
place
wherin
my
parents
had
their
resiaunce
.
This
gentleman
whether
it
were
for
beauty
▪
or
for
any
other
respect
that
he
sawe
in
me
,
I
know
not
,
but
he
was
enamored
of
me
,
&
that
with
an
exceding
vehement
passion
,
&
of
such
force
were
his
affects
,
that
notwithstanding
many
repulses
which
he
had
receiued
at
my
hands
,
he
séemed
dayly
to
growe
in
the
renewing
of
his
desires
.
I
on
the
otherside
,
although
I
could
by
no
meanes
mislike
of
him
by
any
good
reason
,
considering
that
hée
was
of
byrth
no
waye
inferior
vnto
me
,
of
possessions
not
to
bée
disdeyned
,
of
parson
right
comely
,
of
behauyour
Courtly
,
of
manners
modest
,
of
mynde
lyberall
,
and
of
verteous
disposition
:
yet
such
was
the
gaitie
of
my
mynd
,
as
that
I
coulde
not
be
content
to
lend
him
ouer
large
thongs
of
my
loue
,
but
alwayes
daungerously
behaued
my selfe
towardes
him
,
and
in
such
sorte
,
as
hée
coulde
neyther
take
comforte
of
myne
aunsweres
,
nor
yet
once
finde
him selfe
requited
with
one
good
looke
for
all
his
trauayle
.
This
notwithstanding
,
the
worthy
Knigh●
continued
his
sute
wyth
no
lesse
vehement
affection
than
earst
hée
hadde
begone
it
,
euen
by
the
space
of
seuen
yeares
.
At
the
last
,
whether
discomfited
by
my
dealinges
,
or
tyred
by
long
trauayle
,
or
that
he
had
percase
light
vppon
the
lake
that
is
in
the
forrest
of
Ardena
,
and
so
in
haste
and
all
thristie
,
had
dronke
some
droppes
of
disdayne
,
whereby
his
hot
flames
were
quenched
,
or
that
he
had
vndertaken
to
serue
no
longer
but
his
iust
terme
of
apprenticehode
,
or
that
the
téeth
of
time
had
gnawen
and
tyred
his
dulled
sprites
in
such
sorte
,
as
that
all
béenommed
hée
was
constrayned
to
vse
some
other
artificial
balme
for
the
quickning
of
his
sences
,
or
by
what
cause
moued
I
know
not
,
he
did
not
onely
leaue
his
long
continued
sute
,
but
(
as
I
haue
since
perceyed
)
grew
to
hate
me
more
deadly
than
before
I
had
disdayned
him
.
At
the
first
beginning
of
his
retyre
I
perceiued
not
his
hatred
,
but
imagined
that
being
ouer
wearied
he
had
withdrawen
him self
for
a
time
.
And
considring
his
worthynes
,
therwithall
his
constancie
of
long
time
proued
,
I
thought
that
I
could
not
in
the
whole
world
find
out
a
fitter
match
to
bestowe
my selfe
,
than
on
so
worthy
a
person
,
wherefore
I
did
by
all
possible
meanes
procure
that
he
might
eftsones
vse
his
accustomed
repayre
vnto
my
parents
:
And
further
,
in
all
places
where
I
happened
to
méete
him
,
I
vsed
all
the
curtes●es
towardes
him
that
might
bée
contayned
within
the
bondes
of
modestie
,
but
al
was
in
vayne
,
for
he
was
now
become
more
daungerous
to
be
wonne
,
than
the
haggard
Faulcon
.
Our
lottes
being
thus
vnluckely
chaunged
,
I
grewe
to
burne
in
desire
,
and
the
more
daungerous
that
he
shewed
him selfe
vnto
me
,
the
more
earnest
I
was
by
all
meanes
to
procure
his
consent
of
loue
.
At
the
last
I
might
perceiue
that
not
onely
he
disdayned
me
,
but
as
me
thought
boyled
in
hatred
against
me
:
and
the
time
that
I
thus
continued
tormented
with
these
thoughts
,
was
also
iust
the
space
of
seuen
yeares
.
Finally
when
I
perceiued
no
remedie
for
my
parplexities
,
I
assayed
by
absence
to
weare
away
this
malladie
,
and
therfore
vtterly
refused
to
come
in
his
presence
,
yea
or
almost
in
any
other
company
,
whereby
I
haue
consumed
in
lost
time
the
flower
of
my
youth
,
and
am
become
as
you
sée
(
what
with
yeares
,
and
what
with
the
tormēting
passions
of
loue
)
pale
,
wan
,
and
full
of
wrinkles
,
neuerthelesse
,
I
haue
therby
gayned
thus
much
,
that
at
last
I
haue
wond
my self
cléere
out
of
Cupids
cheines
,
and
remain
carelesse
at
libertie
.
Now
marke
to
what
end
I
tell
you
this
:
first
vii
.
yeares
passed
in
the
which
I
could
neuer
be
content
to
yéeld
vnto
his
iust
desires
:
next
other
vii
.
yeares
I
spent
in
séeking
to
recouer
his
lost
loue
:
and
sithens
both
those
vii
.
yeares
,
there
are
euen
now
on
saint
Valentines
day
last
,
other
vii
.
yeares
passed
,
in
the
which
(
neither
I
haue
desired
to
sée
him
)
nor
he
hath
coueted
to
heare
of
me
.
My
parents
now
perceiuing
how
the
crowes
foot
is
crept
vnder
myne
eye
,
and
remembring
the
long
sute
that
this
gentlemā
had
in
youth
spent
on
me
,
considering
therewithall
that
gréene
youth
is
well
mellowed
in
vs
both
,
haue
of
late
sought
to
perswade
a
marriage
betwene
vs
,
the
which
the
Knight
hath
not
refused
to
heare
of
,
and
I
haue
not
disdained
to
thinke
on
:
by
their
mediation
we
haue
bin
eftsoones
brought
to
Parlee
,
wherein
ouer
and
besides
the
ripping
vp
of
many
old
griefes
,
this
hath
ben
chiefly
rehearsed
&
obiected
betwene
vs
,
what
wrong
and
iniury
eche
of
vs
hath
done
to
other
,
and
hereabouts
wée
haue
fallen
to
sharpe
contention
:
he
alledged
,
that
much
greater
is
the
wrong
which
I
haue
done
vnto
him
,
than
that
repulse
which
hée
hath
sithens
vsed
to
me
:
and
I
haue
affirmed
the
contrary
,
the
matter
yit
hangeth
in
variance
.
Nowe
,
of
you
worthy
Gouernour
I
would
be
most
glad
to
heare
this
question
decided
,
remembring
that
ther
was
no
difference
in
the
times
betwene
vs
:
and
surely
,
vnles
your
iudgement
helpe
me
,
I
am
afraide
my
marriage
wil
be
marred
,
and
I
may
goe
lead
Apes
in
hell
.
F.
I.
aunswered
,
good
Pergo
,
I
am
sory
to
heare
so
lamentable
a
discourse
of
your
luckles
loue
,
and
much
the
sorier
,
in
that
I
must
néedes
giue
sentence
against
you
:
for
surely
great
was
the
wrong
that
either
of
you
haue
done
to
other
,
and
greater
was
the
néedelesse
grief
which
causelesse
eche
of
you
hath
conceiued
in
this
long
time
,
but
greatest
in
my
iudgement
hath
ben
both
the
wrong
and
the
grief
of
the
Knight
,
in
that
notwithstanding
his
deserts
(
which
your self
confesse
)
he
neuer
enioyed
any
guerdone
of
loue
at
your
handes
:
And
you
(
as
you
alledge
)
did
enioy
his
loue
of
long
time
togither
,
so
that
by
the
reckoning
,
it
will
fall
out
(
although
being
blinded
in
your
owne
conceypt
)
you
sée
it
not
,
that
of
the
one
&
twenty
yeares
you
enioyed
his
loue
vii
.
at
the
least
,
but
that
euer
he
enioyed
yours
wee
cannot
perceiue
.
And
much
greater
is
the
wrong
that
rewardeth
euill
for
good
,
than
that
which
requireth
tip
for
tap
:
further
,
it
séemed
that
where
as
you
went
about
in
time
to
trie
him
,
you
did
altogither
loose
time
which
can
neuer
be
recouered
:
and
not
onely
lost
your
owne
time
,
whereof
you
would
séeme
now
to
lament
,
but
also
compelled
him
to
leese
his
time
,
which
he
might
(
be
it
spoken
without
offence
to
you
)
haue
bestowed
in
some
other
worthy
place
:
and
therefore
,
as
that
grief
is
much
greater
which
hath
no
kind
of
cōfort
to
allay
it
,
so
much
more
is
that
wrong
which
al●●gither
without
cause
is
offered
.
And
I
(
said
Pergo
)
must
néedes
think
,
that
much
easier
is
it
for
them
to
endure
grief
which
neuer
tasted
of
ioy
,
and
much
lesse
is
that
wrong
which
is
so
willingly
profered
to
be
by
recompence
restored
:
for
if
this
Knight
will
confesse
that
he
neuer
had
cause
to
reioice
in
all
the
time
of
his
s●ruice
,
then
with
better
cōtentation
might
he
abyde
grief
than
I
,
who
hauing
tasted
of
the
delight
which
I
did
secretly
cōceiue
of
his
deserts
,
do
think
ech
grief
a
present
death
by
the
remembrance
of
those
forepassed
thoughts
:
&
lesse
wrong
séemeth
it
to
be
destitut
of
the
thing
which
was
neuer
obteyned
,
than
to
be
depriued
of
a
iewell
whereof
we
haue
bin
already
possessed
:
so
that
vnder
your
correction
I
might
cōclude
,
that
greater
hath
bin
my
grief
&
iniury
susteined
,
than
that
of
the
Knight
.
To
whom
F.I.
replied
,
as
touching
delight
,
it
may
not
be
denied
but
that
euery
louer
doth
take
delight
in
the
inward
cōtemplacion
of
his
mind
,
to
think
of
the
worthines
of
his
beloued
,
&
therfore
you
may
not
alledge
that
the
Knight
had
neuer
cause
to
reioice
,
vnlesse
you
will
altogither
cōdempne
your self
of
vnworthines
:
Mary
if
you
will
say
that
he
tasted
not
the
delights
that
louers
séeke
,
then
mark
,
who
was
the
cause
but
your self
?
And
if
you
would
accuse
him
of
like
ingratitude
,
for
that
he
disdained
you
in
the
latter
vii
.
yeres
,
whē
as
he
might
by
accepting
your
loue
,
haue
recōpenced
him self
of
all
former
wrongs
you
must
remēber
ther
withal
,
that
the
crueltie
by
you
shewed
towards
him
was
such
,
that
could
by
no
meanes
perceiue
that
your
chaūge
procéeded
of
good
will
,
but
rather
eftsones
to
hold
him
enchained
in
vnknown
links
of
subtil
dealings
,
&
therfore
not
without
cause
he
douted
you
:
&
yit
without
cause
you
reiected
him
.
He
had
oftē
sought
occasion
,
but
by
your
refusals
he
could
neuer
find
him
:
you
hauing
occasiō
fast
by
the
foretop
did
dally
with
him
so
long
,
til
at
last
he
slipped
his
head
from
you
,
&
then
catching
at
the
bald
nodd●e
,
you
foūd
your self
the
cause
,
&
yit
you
would
accuse
another
.
To
cōclude
,
greater
is
the
grief
that
is
susteined
without
desert
,
and
much
more
is
the
wrong
that
is
offred
without
cause
.
Thus
F.
I.
decided
the
question
propounded
by
Pergo
,
&
expected
that
some
other
Dame
should
propoūd
another
:
but
his
mistres
(
hauing
hir
hand
on
another
halfpeny
)
gan
thus
say
vnto
him
.
Seruant
this
pastime
is
good
,
and
such
as
I
must
néeds
like
of
,
to
driue
away
your
pensiue
thoughts
:
but
sléeping
time
approcheth
,
&
I
feare
we
disquiet
you
,
wherefore
the
rest
of
this
time
we
will
(
if
so
like
you
)
bestowe
in
trimming
vp
your
bed
and
to
morrow
we
shall
méete
here
and
renew
this
new
begon
game
with
Madame
Pergo
.
Mistres
(
qd
F.
I.
)
I
must
obey
your
will
,
and
most
humbly
thanke
you
of
your
great
goodnesse
,
and
all
these
Ladies
for
their
curtesie
:
Euen
so
,
requiring
you
that
you
will
no
further
trouble
your selues
about
me
,
but
let
my
seruaunt
alone
with
conducting
me
to
bed
.
Yes
seruaunt
(
quod
she
)
I
wil
sée
if
you
can
sléepe
any
better
in
my
shéetes
:
and
therewith
commaunded
hir
handmayd
to
fetch
a
paire
of
cleane
shéetes
,
the
which
béeing
brought
(
maruailous
fine
and
swéete
)
the
Ladies
Fraunces
and
Elyn●r
did
curteously
vnfold
them
,
and
layd
them
on
the
bed
,
which
done
,
they
also
entreated
F.
I.
to
vncloth
him
and
go
to
bed
:
being
layd
,
his
Mistres
dressed
and
couched
the
clothes
about
him
,
sithens
moistened
his
temples
with
rosewater
,
gaue
him
handkerchewes
and
other
fresh
linnen
about
him
,
in
dooing
wherof
,
she
whispered
in
his
eare
,
saying
:
Seruaunt
,
this
night
I
will
bée
with
thée
,
and
after
with
the
rest
of
the
Dames
gaue
him
good
night
and
departed
,
leauing
F.
I.
in
a
traunce
betwene
hope
and
dispayre
,
trust
and
mistrust
.
Thus
he
lay
rauished
,
commaunding
his
seruaunt
to
goe
to
bed
,
and
fayning
that
himself
would
assay
if
he
could
sléepe
.
About
ten
or
eleauē
of
the
clock
came
his
Mistresse
in
hir
night
gowne
,
who
knowing
all
priuy
wayes
in
that
house
very
perfectly
,
had
conueied
hir self
into
F.
I.
chamber
,
vnséene
and
vnperceyued
,
and
being
nowe
come
vnto
his
beds
side
knéeled
down
,
and
laying
hir
arme
ouer
him
sayed
these
or
like
wordes
:
My
good
Seruaunt
,
if
thou
knewest
what
perplexities
I
suffer
in
beholding
of
thine
infirmities
,
it
might
then
suffise
,
eyther
vtterly
to
dryue
away
thy
mallady
,
or
much
more
to
augment
thy
griefs
:
for
I
know
thou
louest
me
,
and
I
think
also
that
thou
hast
had
sufficient
profe
of
myne
vnfained
good
will
,
in
remembrance
whereof
,
I
fall
into
sundry
passions
:
First
,
I
compt
the
happy
lots
of
our
first
acquaintance
,
and
therin
I
call
to
mynde
the
equalitie
of
our
affections
,
for
I
think
that
there
were
neuer
two
louers
conioyned
with
fréeer
consent
on
both
parties
:
and
if
my
ouerhasty
deliuery
of
yéelding
words
be
not
wrested
hereafter
to
my
condempnacion
,
I
can
then
assure
my self
to
escape
for
euer
without
desert
of
any
reprofe
:
herewithall
I
can
not
forget
the
sundry
aduentures
happened
since
we
became
one
hart
deuided
in
two
bodies
,
all
which
haue
ben
both
happily
atchieued
,
and
delectably
enioyed
:
what
resteth
then
to
consider
but
this
thy
present
state
?
The
first
corosiue
that
I
haue
felt
,
and
the
last
cordiall
that
I
looke
for
,
the
end
of
my
ioyes
,
and
the
beginning
of
my
torments
,
and
hereat
hir
salt
teares
gan
bathe
the
dying
lips
of
hir
seruaunt
:
who
hearing
these
wordes
,
and
well
considering
hir
demeanor
,
began
now
to
accuse
him selfe
of
such
and
so
haynous
treason
,
as
that
his
gilty
harte
was
constreined
to
yéelde
vnto
a
iust
scourge
for
the
same
.
Hée
swooned
vnder
hir
arme
:
the
which
when
she
perceyued
,
it
were
hard
to
tel
what
feares
did
most
affright
hir
.
But
I
haue
heard
my
friend
F.
I.
cōfesse
,
that
he
was
in
a
happy
traunce
,
and
thought
himself
for
diuers
causes
vnhappely
reuiued
.
For
surely
I
haue
heard
him
affirme
,
that
to
dye
in
such
a
passion
▪
had
ben
rather
pleasant
,
than
like
to
panges
of
death
.
It
were
hard
now
to
rehearse
how
hée
was
reuiued
,
since
there
wer
none
present
,
but
he
dying
,
(
who
could
not
declare
)
&
she
liuing
,
who
wold
not
disclose
so
much
as
I
meane
to
bewray
.
For
my
friēd
F.I.
hath
to
me
emported
,
that
returning
to
life
,
the
first
thing
which
he
felt
,
was
that
his
good
mistres
lay
pressing
his
with
the
whole
weight
of
hir
body
,
and
biting
his
lips
with
hir
friendly
téeth
:
and
peraduenture
shée
refrayned
(
either
of
curtesie
towards
him
,
or
for
womanish
feare
,
to
hurt
hir
tender
hand
)
to
strik
him
on
the
chéekes
in
such
sorte
,
as
they
doe
that
striue
to
call
agayne
a
dying
creature
:
and
therefore
thought
this
the
aptest
meane
to
reduce
him
vnto
remembrance
.
F.I.
now
awaked
,
could
no
lesse
do
,
than
of
his
curteous
nature
receyue
his
Mistresse
into
his
bed
:
Who
,
as
one
that
knew
that
waye
better
,
than
how
to
help
his
swooning
,
gan
gently
strip
of
hir
clothes
,
and
louingly
embracing
him
,
gan
demaund
of
him
in
this
sorte
.
Alas
good
Seruaunt
(
quod
she
)
what
kinde
of
maladie
is
this
that
so
extréemely
doth
torment
thée
?
F.I.
with
faynting
spéech
aunswered
:
Mistresse
,
as
for
my
maladie
,
it
hath
ben
easely
cured
by
your
bountifull
medicines
applied
:
But
I
must
confesse
,
that
in
receiuing
that
guerison
at
your
handes
,
I
haue
ben
constreined
to
fall
into
an
Extasie
,
through
the
galding
remembrance
of
myne
own
vnworthines
:
Neuerthelesse
good
Mistresse
,
since
I
perceiue
such
fidelitie
remayning
betwene
vs
,
as
that
fewe
wordes
will
perswade
such
trust
as
louers
ought
to
embrace
,
let
these
fewe
wordes
suffise
to
craue
your
pardon
,
and
doe
eftsoones
powre
vpon
me
(
your
vnworthy
seruaunt
)
the
haboundant
waues
of
your
accustomed
clemency
:
for
I
must
confesse
,
that
I
haue
so
highly
offended
you
,
as
(
but
your
goodnesse
surpasse
the
malice
of
my
conceipts
)
I
must
remayne
(
and
that
right
woorthely
)
to
the
seuere
punishment
of
my
desertes
:
and
so
should
you
but
loose
him
who
hath
cast
away
him self
,
and
neither
can
accuse
you
,
nor
dare
excuse
him selfe
of
the
crime
.
Dame
Elynor
,
who
had
rather
haue
found
hir
seruaunt
perfectly
reuiued
,
than
thus
with
straunge
conceipts
encombred
:
and
musing
much
at
his
darke
spéech
,
became
importunat
to
know
the
certainty
of
his
thoughts
.
And
F.I.
as
one
not
maister
of
him selfe
,
gan
at
the
last
playnly
confesse
howe
he
had
mistrusted
the
chaunge
of
hir
vowed
affections
:
Yea
and
(
that
more
was
)
he
playnly
expressed
with
whom
,
of
whom
,
by
whom
,
and
too
whom
shée
bent
hir
better
liking
.
Now
,
here
I
would
demaund
of
you
and
such
other
as
are
expert
:
Is
there
any
geater
impediment
to
the
fruition
of
a
Louers
delights
,
than
to
be
mistrusted
?
or
rather
,
is
it
not
the
ready
way
to
race
all
loue
and
former
good
will
out
of
remembrance
,
to
tell
a
gilty
mynd
that
you
doe
mistrust
it
?
It
should
séeme
yes
,
by
Dame
Elynor
,
who
began
nowe
to
take
the
matter
whottely
,
and
of
such
vehemency
were
hir
fancies
,
that
shée
nowe
fell
into
flat
defiance
with
F.
I.
who
although
hée
sought
by
many
faire
wordes
to
temper
hir
chollerike
passions
,
and
by
yeelding
him selfe
to
●et
the
conquest
of
an
other
,
yet
could
hée
by
no
meanes
determine
the
quarrell
.
The
softe
pillowes
being
present
at
all
these
whot
wordes
,
put
forth
themselues
as
mediatours
for
a
truce
betwene
these
enemies
,
and
desired
that
(
if
they
would
néedes
fight
)
it
might
be
in
their
presence
but
onely
one
pusshe
of
the
pike
,
and
so
from
thenceforth
to
become
friends
again
for
euer
.
But
the
Dame
denied
flatly
,
alleadging
that
shée
found
no
cause
at
all
to
vse
such
curtesie
vnto
such
a
re●reant
,
adding
further
many
wordes
of
great
reproche
:
the
which
did
so
encourage
F.
I.
as
that
hauing
now
forgotten
all
former
curtesies
,
he
drewe
vppon
his
new
pr●fessed
enimie
,
and
bare
hir
vp
with
such
a
violence
against
the
bolster
,
that
before
shée
could
prepare
the
warde
,
he
thrust
hir
through
both
hands
,
and
&c.
wherby
the
Dame
swoning
for
feare
,
was
constreyned
(
for
a
time
)
to
abandon
hir
body
to
the
enemies
curtesie
.
At
last
when
shée
came
to
hir selfe
,
shée
rose
sodeinly
and
determined
to
saue
hir selfe
by
flight
,
leauing
F.
I.
with
many
dispytefull
wordes
,
and
swearing
that
hee
should
neuer
(
eftsoones
)
take
hir
at
the
like
aduātage
,
the
which
othe
she
kept
better
than
hir
former
professd
good
will
:
and
hauing
nowe
recouered
hir
chamber
(
bicause
shee
founde
hir
hurt
to
be
nothing
daungerous
)
I
doubt
not
,
but
shee
slept
quietly
the
rest
of
the
night
:
As
F.
I.
also
perswading
himselfe
that
hée
should
with
conuenient
leysure
recouer
hir
from
this
hagger
conceipt
,
tooke
some
better
rest
towardes
the
morning
,
than
hee
had
done
in
many
nights
forepast
.
So
let
them
both
slèepe
whyles
I
turne
my
penne
vnto
the
before
named
Secretary
,
who
being
(
as
I
sayd
)
come
lately
from
London
,
had
made
many
proffers
to
renew
his
accustomed
consultations
:
but
the
sorrow
which
his
Mistresse
had
conceyued
in
F.I.
his
sicknesse
,
togither
with
hir
continuall
repayre
to
him
during
the
same
,
had
ben
such
lettes
vnto
his
attempts
,
at
is
was
long
time
before
he
could
obtayne
audience
.
At
the
last
these
newe
accidentes
fell
so
fauourably
for
the
furtherance
of
his
cause
,
that
he
came
to
his
Mistresse
presence
,
and
there
pleaded
for
himselfe
.
Nowe
,
if
I
should
at
large
write
his
allegations
,
togither
with
hir
subtile
aunsweres
,
I
should
but
comber
your
eares
with
vnpleasaunt
rehearsall
of
feminine
frayeltie
.
To
be
short
,
the
late
disdayneful
moode
which
she
had
cōceyued
against
F.I.
togither
with
a
scrupule
which
lay
in
hir
cōscience
,
touching
the
xi
.
article
of
hir
beléeue
,
moued
hir
presently
with
better
will
to
cōsult
with
this
Secretary
,
aswel
vpon
a
spéedy
reueng
of
hir
late
receiued
wrōgs
as
also
vpon
the
reformation
of
hir
religion
.
And
in
very
déed
,
it
fell
out
that
the
Secretary
hauing
bin
of
long
time
absēt
,
&
therby
his
quils
&
pēnes
not
worn
so
néer
as
they
were
wont
to
be
,
did
now
prick
such
faire
large
notes
,
that
his
Mistres
liked
better
to
sing
faburden
vnder
him
,
thā
to
descant
any
longer
vppon
F.
I.
playne
song
:
and
thus
they
continued
in
good
accorde
,
vntill
it
fortuned
that
Dame
Fraunces
came
into
hir
chamber
vppon
such
sodeyn
as
shée
had
like
to
haue
marred
all
the
musick
.
Wel
thei
cōueied
their
clifs
as
closely
as
they
could
,
but
yit
not
altogither
without
some
suspiciō
giuen
to
the
said
dame
Fraūces
,
who
although
shée
could
baue
bin
content
to
take
any
payn
in
F.I.
behalf
,
yit
otherwise
she
would
neuer
haue
bestowed
the
watching
about
so
wortheles
a
prise
.
After
womāly
salutacions
they
fel
into
sundry
discourses
,
the
Secretaty
stil
abyding
in
the
chāber
with
them
.
At
last
two
or
thrée
other
gentlewomē
of
the
Castle
came
into
Madam
Elynors
chamber
,
who
after
their
Bon
iour
did
all
(
vna
voce
)
séeme
to
lament
the
sicknes
of
F.I.
and
called
vpon
the
Dames
Elinor
and
Fraunces
,
to
go
visite
him
againe
.
The
Lady
Fraunces
curteously
consented
,
but
Madame
Elinor
first
alledged
that
she
hir selfe
was
also
sickly
,
the
which
she
attributed
to
hir
late
paynes
taken
about
F.
I.
and
sayd
that
onely
for
that
cause
she
was
constrayned
to
kepe
hir
bed
longer
than
hir
accustomed
hower
.
The
Dames
(
but
especially
the
Lady
Fraunces
)
gan
streight
waies
coniecture
some
great
cause
of
sodaine
change
,
and
so
leauing
dame
Elynor
,
walked
altogether
into
the
parke
to
take
the
ayre
of
the
morning
:
And
as
they
thus
walked
it
chaūced
that
Dame
Pergo
heard
a
Cuckoe
chaunt
,
who
(
because
the
pride
of
the
spring
was
now
past
)
cried
Cuck
cuck
Cuckoe
in
hir
stameringe
voyce
.
A
ha
(
quod
Pergo
)
this
foule
byrd
begines
to
flye
the
countrie
,
and
yet
before
hir
departure
,
sée
how
spitefully
she
can
deuise
to
salute
vs
.
Not
vs
(
quod
Dame
Fraunces
)
but
some
other
whom
she
hath
espyed
:
wherewith
Dame
Pergo
looking
round
about
hir
,
and
espying
none
other
company
sayd
.
Why
here
is
no
body
but
we
few
womē
qd
she
.
Thanks
be
to
God
the
house
is
not
farre
from
vs
(
quod
Dame
Fraunces
.
)
Here
at
the
wylie
Pergo
partely
perceyuing
Dame
Fraunces
meaning
replyed
on
this
sort
:
I
vnderstand
you
not
(
quod
she
)
but
to
leape
out
of
this
matter
,
shall
we
go
visite
Maister
F.
I.
and
sée
how
he
doth
this
morning
?
Why
quod
dame
Fraunces
,
do
you
suppose
that
the
Cuckoe
called
vnto
him
?
Nay
marry
quod
Pergo
,
for
(
as
farre
as
I
know
)
he
is
not
maried
.
As
who
should
say
(
quod
Dame
Fraunces
,
)
that
the
Cuckoe
enuieth
none
but
maryed
folkes
.
I
take
it
so
sayd
Pergo
:
the
Lady
Fraunces
aunswered
.
Yes
suer
I
haue
noted
as
euill
lucke
in
loue
(
after
the
cuckoes
call
)
to
haue
happened
vnto
diuers
vnmaried
folkes
,
as
euer
I
did
vnto
the
maried
:
but
I
can
be
well
content
that
we
go
vnto
Master
.
I.
for
I
promised
on
the
behalfe
of
vs
al
,
that
we
wold
vse
our
best
deuoyre
to
recomfort
him
vntill
he
had
recouered
health
,
and
I
do
much
meruayle
that
the
Lady
Elinor
is
now
become
so
vnwilling
to
take
any
trauayle
in
his
behalfe
,
especially
remembring
that
but
yesternigh
she
was
so
diligent
to
bring
him
to
bed
,
but
I
perceyue
that
all
earthly
thinges
are
subiect
vnto
change
.
Euen
so
they
be
quod
Pergo
,
for
you
may
behold
the
trées
which
but
euen
this
other
daye
were
clad
in
gladsome
gréene
,
and
now
their
leaues
begin
to
fa●e
and
change
colour
.
Thus
they
passed
talking
and
walking
vntill
they
returned
vnto
the
Castle
,
whereas
they
went
straight
vnto
F.I.
chamber
,
&
found
him
in
bed
:
why
how
now
Trust
(
quod
Dame
Fraunces
,
)
w●ll
it
be
no
better
?
Yes
shortly
I
hope
quod
F.I.
The
Ladies
all
saluted
him
&
he
gaue
them
the
gramercy
:
at
the
last
Pergo
popped
this
question
vnto
him
.
And
howe
haue
you
slept
in
your
Mistres
shéetes
Master
F.
I.
quod
she
?
reasonable
well
quod
F.
I.
but
I
pray
you
where
is
my
Mistresse
this
morning
?
Mary
sayd
Pergo
,
wee
left
hir
in
bed
scarce
well
at
ease
.
I
am
the
more
sorye
quod
F.
I.
Why
Trust
(
sayd
Mistresse
Fraunces
)
be
of
good
comforte
,
and
assure
your selfe
that
here
are
others
who
would
be
as
glad
of
your
wel
doing
,
as
your
Mistresse
in
any
respect
.
I
ought
not
to
doubt
therof
(
quod
F.
I.
)
hauing
the
proofe
that
I
haue
had
of
your
great
curtesies
,
but
I
thought
it
my
dutie
to
aske
for
my
Mistresse
being
absent
.
Thus
they
passed
some
time
with
him
vntill
they
were
called
away
vnto
prayers
,
and
that
being
finished
they
went
to
dinner
,
where
they
met
Dame
Elynor
attired
in
a
night
kerchief
after
the
soolenest
(
the
solempnest
fashion
I
should
haue
sayed
,
)
who
loked
very
drowsely
vpon
all
folkes
vnlesse
it
were
hir
secretary
,
vnto
whom
she
deigned
sometime
to
lend
a
fréendly
glaunce
.
The
Lord
of
the
Castle
demaunded
of
hir
howe
F.I.
did
this
morning
.
She
answered
that
she
knew
not
,
for
she
had
not
séene
him
that
day
.
You
may
do
wel
then
daughter
(
qd
the
Lord
)
to
go
now
vnto
him
,
&
to
assay
if
he
wil
eate
any
thing
,
&
if
here
be
no
meates
that
like
him
,
I
pray
you
commaund
(
for
him
)
any
thing
that
is
in
my
house
.
You
must
pardon
me
sir
(
quod
she
,
)
I
am
sickly
disposed
,
and
would
be
loth
to
take
the
ayre
:
why
then
go
you
Mistres
Fraunce
(
quod
he
)
and
take
some
body
with
you
:
and
I
charge
you
sée
that
he
lacke
nothing
.
Mistresse
Fraunces
was
glad
of
the
ambassade
,
&
arysing
from
the
table
with
one
other
gentlewoman
,
toke
with
hir
a
dishe
of
chickins
boyled
in
white
broth
,
saying
to
hir
father
:
I
thinke
this
meate
méetest
for
Master
I.
of
any
that
is
here
.
It
is
so
(
qoud
he
)
daughter
,
and
if
he
like
not
that
,
cause
somewhat
els
to
be
dressed
for
him
according
to
his
apetite
.
Thus
she
departed
and
came
to
F.
I.
who
being
plonged
in
sundry
woes
and
thrilled
with
restlesse
thoughtes
,
was
now
beginning
to
aryse
:
but
seing
the
Dames
,
couched
downe
againe
,
and
sayd
vnto
them
.
Alas
fayre
Ladies
you
put
your selues
to
more
paynes
than
eyther
I
do
desire
,
or
can
deserue
.
Good
Trust
quod
Dame
Fraunces
,
our
paines
are
no
greater
than
dutie
requireth
,
nor
yet
so
great
as
we
could
vouchsafe
in
your
behalfe
,
and
presently
my
father
hath
sent
vs
vnto
you
(
quod
she
)
with
this
pittaunce
,
and
if
your
apetite
desire
any
one
thing
more
than
other
,
wée
are
to
desire
likewise
that
you
will
not
refrayne
to
call
for
it
.
Oh
my
good
Hope
(
quod
hée
)
I
perceiue
that
I
shall
not
dye
as
longe
as
you
maye
make
mée
liue
.
And
being
nowe
somedeale
recomforted
with
the
remembraunce
of
his
Mistres
words
which
shée
hadde
vsed
ouer
night
at
hir
first
comming
,
and
also
thinkinge
that
although
shée
parted
in
choller
,
it
was
but
iustly
prouoked
by
him selfe
,
and
that
at
leasure
hée
shoulde
fyn●e
some
salue
for
that
soore
also
:
hée
determyned
to
take
the
comforte
of
his
assured
Hope
,
and
so
to
expell
all
venomnes
of
mistrust
before
receyued
:
wherfore
raysing
him selfe
in
his
bed
,
he
cast
a
night
gowne
about
his
shoulders
saying
:
It
shall
neuer
be
sayd
that
my
faynting
hart
can
reiect
the
comfortable
Cordialles
of
so
fréendly
phisitions
.
Nowe
by
my
troth
well
sayed
gentle
Trust
quod
Dame
Fraunces
,
and
in
so
doing
assure
your selfe
of
guerison
with
spéed
.
This
thus
sayed
,
the
curteous
Dame
became
his
keruer
,
&
hée
with
a
bold
spirite
gan
tast
of
hir
cookery
,
but
the
late
conflicts
of
his
conceipts
had
so
disaquainted
his
stomack
from
repastes
,
that
he
could
not
well
away
with
meate
:
and
yet
neuerthelesse
by
little
&
little
receyued
some
nouryture
.
When
his
Hope
had
crammed
him
as
long
as
she
coulde
make
him
féede
,
they
deliuered
the
rest
to
the
other
gentlewoman
,
who
hauing
not
dyned
,
fell
to
hir
prouander
.
In
which
meane
while
the
Lady
Fraunces
had
much
cōfortable
spéech
with
F.I.
and
declared
that
she
perceyued
very
well
the
cause
of
his
malladie
,
but
my
Trust
(
quod
she
)
be
all
whole
,
and
remember
what
I
foretold
you
in
the
beginning
:
neuerthelesse
you
must
thinke
that
there
are
remedies
for
all
mischiefes
,
and
if
you
wil
be
ruled
by
myne
aduise
,
we
will
soone
find
the
meane
to
ease
you
of
this
mishap
.
F.
I.
toke
comforte
in
hir
discretion
,
and
fréendly
kissing
hir
hand
,
gaue
hir
a
cartlode
of
thankes
for
hir
great
good
will
,
promising
to
put
to
his
vttermost
force
,
and
euermore
to
be
ruled
by
hir
aduise
.
Thus
they
passed
the
dynner
while
,
the
Ladie
Fraunces
alwayes
refusing
to
declare
hir
conceipt
of
the
late
change
which
she
perceyued
in
his
Mistresse
,
for
shée
thought
best
first
to
wynne
his
will
vnto
conformitie
by
little
and
little
,
and
then
in
the
end
to
persuade
him
with
necessitie
.
When
the
other
gentlewoman
had
vytayled
hir
,
they
departed
,
requiring
F.I.
to
arise
and
boldly
to
resist
the
fayntnesse
of
his
feuer
,
the
which
he
promised
and
so
bad
them
a
Di●.
The
Ladyes
at
their
returne
found
the
courte
in
Dame
Elynors
chamber
,
who
had
there
assembled
hir
secretary
,
Dam
Pergo
,
and
the
rest
:
there
they
passed
an
hower
or
twayne
in
sundry
discourses
,
wherin
Dame
Pergo
did
alwaies
cast
out
some
bone
for
Mistresse
Fraunces
to
gnaw
vppon
,
for
that
in
déede
she
perceyued
hir
harty
affection
towardes
F.
I
:
whereat
Mistresse
Fraunces
changed
no
countenaunce
,
but
reserued
hir
reuenge
vntill
a
better
oportunitie
.
At
last
(
quod
Dame
Fraunces
vnto
Mistresse
Elinor
)
and
when
will
you
go
vnto
your
seruaunt
fayre
Lady
?
When
he
is
sicke
and
I
am
whole
quod
Dame
Elynor
.
That
is
euen
now
quod
the
other
,
for
how
sicke
hée
is
your self
can
witnesse
:
and
how
well
you
are
we
must
beare
record
.
You
may
aswel
be
deceiued
in
my
disposition
(
quod
Dame
Elynor
)
as
I
was
ouerséene
in
his
sodain
alteration
,
and
if
he
be
sicke
you
are
méetest
to
be
his
phisition
:
for
you
sawe
yesterday
that
my
paines
did
little
profite
towardes
his
recōfort
.
Yes
surely
sayd
the
other
,
not
onely
I
but
all
the
rest
had
occasiō
to
iudge
that
your
curtesie
was
his
chiefe
comfort
.
Well
quod
Dame
Elinor
you
know
not
what
I
know
.
Nor
you
what
I
think
quod
Dame
Fraunces
.
Thinke
what
you
list
quod
Elynor
.
In
déede
quod
Fraunces
I
may
not
thinke
that
you
care
,
neither
will
I
die
for
your
pleasure
:
and
so
halfe
angry
shée
departed
.
At
supper
they
met
againe
,
and
the
Maister
of
the
house
demaūded
of
his
daughter
Fraunces
how
F.I.
did
?
Sir
(
quod
she
)
he
did
eate
somewhat
at
dinner
,
and
sithens
I
saw
him
not
.
The
more
to
blame
quod
he
,
and
now
I
would
haue
al
you
gentlewomen
take
of
the
best
meates
and
go
suppe
with
him
:
for
company
driueth
away
carefulnesse
,
and
leaue
you
me
here
with
your
leauinges
alone
.
Nay
sir
quod
Mistresse
Elynor
,
I
pray
you
giue
me
leaue
to
beare
you
company
,
for
I
dare
not
aduenture
thither
.
The
Lord
of
the
Castle
was
contented
&
dispatched
away
the
rest
:
who
taking
with
them
such
vyandes
as
they
thought
méetest
,
went
vnto
F.I.
chamber
,
fynding
him
vp
,
and
walking
about
to
recouer
strength
,
whereat
Dame
Fraunces
reioysed
,
and
declared
how
hir
father
had
sent
that
company
to
attend
him
at
supper
.
F.
I.
gaue
great
thankes
,
and
missing
now
nothing
but
his
Mistresse
,
thought
not
good
yet
to
aske
for
hir
,
but
because
he
partly
gessed
the
cause
of
hir
absence
,
he
contented
him selfe
,
hoping
that
when
his
lure
was
newe
garnished
,
he
shoulde
easely
reclayme
hir
from
those
coye
conceiptes
.
They
passed
ouer
their
supper
all
in
quiet
,
and
sone
after
Mistresse
Fraunces
,
being
desirous
to
requite
Dame
Pergoes
quippes
,
requested
that
they
might
continue
the
pastime
which
Dame
Pergo
had
begon
ouer
night
:
whereunto
they
all
consented
,
and
the
lot
fell
vnto
Dame
Fraunces
to
propounde
the
second
question
,
who
adressing
hir
spéeche
vnto
F.
I.
sayde
in
this
wyse
.
Noble
gouernor
,
I
will
reherse
vnto
you
a
straūge
historie
,
not
fayned
,
neither
borowed
out
of
any
olde
aucthoritie
,
but
a
thing
done
in
déede
of
late
daies
,
and
not
farre
distant
from
this
place
where
wee
nowe
remayne
.
It
chaunced
that
a
gentleman
our
neighbour
being
maried
to
a
very
fayre
gentlewoman
,
liued
with
hir
by
the
space
of
fower
or
fiue
yeares
in
great
contentation
,
trusting
hir
no
lesse
than
he
loued
hir
,
and
yet
louing
hir
as
much
as
any
man
coulde
loue
a
woman
.
On
that
otherside
the
gentlewoman
hadde
woon
(
vnto
hir
beautie
)
a
singular
commendation
for
hir
chast
and
modest
behauiour
.
Yet
it
happened
in
time
that
a
lustie
younge
gentleman
(
who
very
often
resorted
to
them
)
obtayned
that
at
hir
handes
▪
which
neuer
any
man
coulde
before
him
attayne
:
and
to
be
playne
,
he
woon
so
much
in
hir
affections
,
that
forgetting
both
hir
owne
dutie
and
hir
husbandes
kindnes
,
she
yéelded
hir
body
at
the
commaundement
of
this
louer
,
in
which
pastime
they
passed
long
time
by
their
polliticks
gouernement
.
At
last
the
friendes
of
this
Lady
(
and
especially
thrée
sisters
which
she
had
)
espied
ouermuch
familiaritie
betwene
the
two
louers
,
and
dreading
least
it
might
breake
out
to
their
cōmon
reproch
toke
their
sister
apart
,
and
declared
that
the
worlde
did
iudge
scarce
well
of
the
repayre
of
that
gentleman
vnto
hir
house
:
and
that
if
she
did
not
foresée
it
in
time
,
she
shoulde
not
onely
leese
the
good
credite
which
she
hir selfe
had
hitherto
possessed
,
but
furthermore
should
distayne
their
whole
race
with
common
obloquy
and
reproch
.
These
and
sundry
other
godly
admonitions
of
these
sisters
could
not
sinke
in
the
mind
of
this
gentlewoman
,
for
she
did
not
onely
stand
in
defiaunce
what
any
man
coulde
thinke
of
hir
,
but
also
séemed
to
accuse
them
,
that
because
they
saw
hir
estimation
(
being
their
yonger
)
to
growe
aboue
their
owne
,
they
had
therfore
deuised
this
meane
to
set
variance
betwene
hir
husbande
and
hir
.
The
sisters
séeing
their
holesome
counsell
so
reiected
,
and
hir
continue
still
in
hir
obstinate
opinion
,
adressed
their
spéech
vnto
hir
husbande
,
declaring
that
the
worlde
iudged
not
the
best
,
neyther
they
themselues
did
very
wel
like
of
the
familiaritie
betwene
their
sister
and
that
gentleman
,
and
therfore
aduised
him
to
forecast
all
perils
,
and
in
time
to
forbid
him
his
house
.
The
husband
(
on
that
otherside
)
had
also
conceyued
such
a
goo●
opinion
of
his
gest
,
&
had
growen
into
such
a
stricte
famyliaritie
with
him
,
that
you
might
with
more
ease
haue
remoued
a
stone
wall
,
than
once
to
make
him
thinke
amisse
,
eyther
of
his
wyfe
,
or
of
hir
louer
:
Yea
and
immediately
after
this
conference
he
would
not
sticke
thus
to
say
vnto
his
wyfe
.
Besse
:
(
for
so
in
dée●e
was
hir
name
)
thou
hast
thrée
such
busie
bray●ed
si●ters
,
as
I
thincke
shortly
their
heads
will
breake
:
they
woulde
haue
me
to
bée
tellous
of
thée
,
no
no
Besse
&c.
so
that
hee
was
not
onely
farre
from
any
such
beliefe
,
but
furthermore
dyd
euery
day
encrease
his
curtesies
towardes
the
louer
.
The
sisters
being
thus
on
all
sides
reiected
,
and
yet
perceiuing
more
and
more
an
vnseemely
behauiour
betwene
their
sister
and
hir
miniō
,
began
to
melt
in
their
owne
grease
:
and
such
was
their
enraged
pretēce
of
reuenge
,
that
they
suborned
diuers
seruants
in
the
house
to
watch
so
dilligently
,
as
that
this
treason
might
be
discouered
.
Amōgst
the
rest
,
one
mayde
of
subtill
spirite
had
so
long
watched
them
,
that
at
last
she
espied
them
go
into
a
chamber
together
,
and
locke
the
doore
to
them
:
whereuppon
she
ranne
with
all
hast
possible
to
hir
Maister
,
and
tolde
him
that
if
he
would
come
with
hir
,
shée
woulde
shewe
him
a
very
straunge
sight
.
The
gentleman
(
suspectinge
nothinge
)
went
with
hir
vntill
he
came
into
a
chamber
neare
vnto
that
wherein
they
had
shut
themselues
,
and
she
poynting
hir
Maister
to
the
keyhole
,
bad
him
looke
through
,
where
he
sawe
the
thing
which
most
might
mislike
him
to
behold
.
Where
at
he
sodaynely
drewe
his
Dagger
,
and
turned
towardes
the
mayde
,
who
fled
from
him
for
feare
of
mischiefe
:
but
when
he
could
not
ouer
take
hir
in
the
heat
of
his
choller
,
he
commaunded
that
she
should
forthwith
trusse
vp
that
little
which
she
had
and
to
depart
his
seruice
:
and
before
hir
departure
he
found
meanes
to
talke
with
hir
,
threatening
that
if
euer
she
spake
any
word
of
this
mystery
in
any
place
where
she
should
come
,
it
shuld
cost
hir
lyfe
.
The
mayde
for
feare
departed
in
silence
,
and
the
Master
neuer
changed
coūtenance
eyther
to
his
wife
or
to
hir
peramour
,
but
feyned
vnto
his
wyfe
that
he
had
turned
away
the
mayde
vppon
that
sodaine
,
for
that
shée
had
throwen
a
Kitchin
knife
at
him
,
whyles
he
went
about
to
correct
a
fault
in
hir
&c
.
Thus
the
good
gentleman
dranke
vp
his
owne
swette
vnséene
euery
day
,
encreasing
curtesie
to
the
louer
,
and
neuer
chaunging
countenaunce
to
his
wyfe
in
any
thing
,
but
onely
that
he
refrayned
to
haue
such
knowlege
of
hir
carnally
as
he
in
times
past
had
,
and
other
men
haue
of
their
wyues
.
In
this
sort
he
continued
by
the
space
all
most
of
halfe
a
yeare
,
neuerthelesse
lamenting
his
mishap
in
sollitary
places
.
At
last
(
what
moued
him
I
know
not
)
he
fell
agayn
to
company
with
his
wife
as
other
men
doo
,
and
as
I
haue
heard
it
saied
he
vsed
this
pollicy
:
euery
time
that
he
had
knowledge
of
hir
,
he
would
leaue
either
in
the
bed
,
or
in
hir
cusshencloth
,
or
by
hir
looking
glasse
,
or
in
some
place
wher
shée
must
néedes
find
it
,
a
piece
of
mony
which
then
was
fallen
to
thrée
halfpence
:
and
I
remember
they
called
thē
Slippes
.
Thus
he
dealt
with
hir
continually
by
the
space
of
foure
or
fiue
monethes
,
vsing
hir
neuerthelesse
very
kindly
in
all
other
respectes
,
&
prouiding
for
hir
al
things
necessary
at
the
first
call
:
But
vnto
his
geast
he
still
augmented
his
curtesie
,
in
suche
sorte
,
that
you
would
haue
thought
them
to
be
sworne
brothers
.
Al
this
notwithstāding
his
wife
much
musing
at
these
thrée
half
peny
péeces
which
she
founde
in
this
sorte
,
and
furthermore
,
hauing
sundry
times
found
hir
husband
in
solitarie
places
making
great
lamentation
,
she
grew
enquisitiue
,
what
should
be
the
secret
cause
of
these
alteracions
:
vnto
whō
he
would
none
otherwise
answere
,
but
that
any
mā
shuld
finde
occasion
to
be
more
pensiue
at
one
time
than
at
another
.
The
wife
notwithstanding
encreasing
hir
suspect
,
emported
the
same
vnto
hir
louer
,
alledging
therwithall
that
shée
doubted
very
much
least
hir
husband
had
some
vehement
suspiciō
of
their
affaires
.
The
louer
encoraged
hir
,
&
likewise
declared
,
that
if
she
would
be
importunate
to
enquire
the
cause
,
hir
husband
would
not
be
able
to
kéepe
it
from
hir
:
and
hauing
now
throughly
enstructed
hir
,
she
dealt
with
hir
husband
in
this
sorte
.
One
day
when
shee
knew
him
to
be
in
his
study
alone
,
she
came
in
to
him
,
and
hauing
fast
locked
the
dore
after
hir
,
and
cōueyed
the
key
into
hir
pocked
,
she
began
first
with
earnest
entreaty
,
and
then
with
teares
to
craue
that
he
would
no
longer
kéepe
from
hir
the
cause
of
his
sodein
alteration
.
The
husband
dissimuled
the
matter
still
:
at
last
she
was
so
earnest
to
know
for
what
cause
he
left
money
in
such
sort
at
sundry
times
,
that
he
aunswered
on
this
wise
:
Wyfe
(
quod
he
)
thou
knowest
how
long
we
haue
ben
maried
togither
,
&
how
long
I
made
so
deare
accompt
of
thée
as
euer
man
made
of
his
wife
:
since
which
dayes
,
thou
knowest
also
how
long
I
refreyned
thy
company
,
and
how
long
again
I
haue
vsed
thy
company
leauing
the
mony
in
this
sorte
,
and
the
cause
is
this
.
So
lōg
as
thou
didst
behaue
thy self
faithfully
towards
me
,
I
neuer
lothed
thy
company
,
but
sithens
I
haue
perceiued
thée
to
be
a
harlot
,
therfore
did
I
for
a
time
refreine
and
forbeare
to
lie
with
thée
:
&
now
I
can
no
longer
forbeare
it
,
I
do
giue
thée
euery
time
that
I
lye
with
thée
a
slip
,
which
is
to
make
thée
vnderstande
thine
own
whordome
:
and
this
reward
is
sufficient
for
a
whore
.
The
wife
began
stoutly
to
stand
at
defiance
,
but
the
husband
cut
off
hir
spéeche
and
declared
when
,
where
,
and
how
he
had
séene
it
:
hereat
the
womā
being
abashed
,
and
finding
hir
conscience
gilty
of
asmuch
as
he
had
alledged
,
fel
down
on
hir
knées
,
&
with
most
bitter
teares
craued
pardon
,
confessing
hir
offence
:
whereat
hir
husband
(
moued
with
pitie
)
&
melting
likewise
in
fluds
of
lamentation
,
recōforted
hir
promising
that
if
from
that
day
forwards
she
would
be
true
vnto
him
,
he
wold
not
only
forgiue
al
that
was
past
,
but
become
more
tender
&
louing
vnto
hir
than
euer
he
was
.
What
do
I
tary
so
long
?
they
became
of
accord
:
&
in
full
accōplishment
therof
,
the
gentlewoman
did
altogither
eschew
the
company
,
the
speech
,
&
(
as
much
as
in
hir
lay
)
the
sight
of
hir
louer
,
although
hir
husband
did
continue
his
curtesie
to
wars
him
,
and
often
charged
his
wife
to
make
him
fair
semblant
.
The
Louer
was
now
onely
left
in
perpleritie
,
who
knewe
nothing
what
might
be
the
cause
of
all
these
chaunges
,
&
that
most
greeued
him
,
he
could
by
no
meanes
obteyne
agayn
the
spéech
of
his
desired
:
hee
watched
all
opportunities
,
hée
suborned
messangers
,
he
wrote
letters
,
but
all
in
vayne
.
In
the
end
shée
caused
to
be
declared
vnto
him
a
time
and
place
where
she
would
méete
him
and
speake
with
him
.
Being
mett
,
she
put
him
in
remembrance
of
all
that
had
passed
betwene
them
:
she
layed
also
before
him
howe
trusty
shée
had
bin
vnto
him
in
all
professions
:
she
confessed
also
how
faithfully
hee
had
discharged
the
dutie
of
a
friend
in
all
respects
,
and
therewithall
she
declared
that
hir
late
alteration
and
pensiuenes
of
mind
was
not
with
out
great
cause
,
for
that
she
had
of
late
such
a
mishap
,
as
might
change
the
disposition
of
any
liuing
creature
:
Yea
and
that
the
case
was
such
,
as
vnlesse
she
found
present
remedy
,
hir
death
must
néedes
ensue
and
that
spéedely
:
for
the
preuenting
whereof
,
she
alledged
that
she
had
beaten
hir
braynes
with
all
deuises
possible
,
and
that
in
the
end
she
could
think
of
no
redresse
but
one
,
the
which
lay
only
in
him
to
accomplishe
.
Wherfore
she
besought
him
for
all
the
loue
and
good
will
which
passed
betwene
them
,
nowe
to
shew
the
fruites
of
true
friendship
,
and
to
gratifie
hir
with
a
frée
graunt
to
this
request
.
The
louer
who
had
always
ben
desirous
to
pleasure
hir
in
any
thing
,
but
now
especially
to
recouer
hir
woonted
kindnesse
,
gan
frankly
promise
to
accōplish
any
thing
that
might
be
to
him
possible
,
yea
though
it
were
to
his
great
detriment
:
and
therewithall
did
déepely
blame
hir
in
that
she
would
so
long
torment
hir selfe
with
any
grief
,
considering
that
it
lay
in
him
to
helpe
it
.
The
Lady
aunswered
,
that
she
had
so
long
kept
it
from
his
knowledge
,
bycause
she
doubted
whether
he
would
be
contented
to
performe
it
or
not
,
althogh
it
was
such
a
thing
as
he
might
easely
graūt
without
any
maner
of
hurt
to
himself
:
&
yit
that
now
in
the
end
she
was
forced
to
aduēture
vpon
his
curtesie
,
being
no
lōger
able
to
bear
the
burdē
of
hir
grief
the
louer
solicited
hir
most
earnestly
to
disclose
it
:
and
she
(
as
fast
)
séemed
to
mistrust
that
he
would
not
accōpl●sh
it
.
In
the
end
she
tooke
out
a
booke
(
which
shée
had
brought
for
the
no●ce
)
and
bound
him
by
oth
to
accōplish
it
.
The
louer
mistrusting
nothing
lesse
than
that
ensued
,
tooke
the
othe
willingly
:
which
don
she
declared
al
that
had
passed
betwene
hir
&
hir
husband
:
his
grief
,
hir
repentance
,
his
pardon
,
hir
vow
,
&
in
the
ende
of
hir
tale
enioined
the
louer
,
that
frō
thenceforthwards
,
he
should
neuer
attempt
to
break
hir
cōstant
determination
:
the
louer
replied
that
this
was
vnpossible
:
but
shée
plainly
assured
him
,
that
if
he
graūted
hir
that
request
,
she
would
be
his
friend
in
all
honest
&
godly
wise
:
if
not
,
shée
put
him
out
of
doubt
that
she
would
eschew
his
cōpany
&
flie
from
his
sight
as
from
a
scorpion
.
The
louer
considering
that
hir
request
was
but
iust
,
accusing
his
own
gilty
conscience
,
remembring
the
great
curtesies
always
vsed
by
hir
husband
,
&
therwithal
séeing
the
case
now
brought
to
such
an
issue
,
as
that
by
none
other
meanes
than
by
this
it
could
be
conceiled
frō
knowledge
of
the
world
:
but
most
of
all
,
being
vrged
by
his
oth
,
did
at
last
giue
an
vnwilling
consent
,
&
yit
a
faithful
promise
to
yéeld
vnto
hir
wil
in
al
things
:
and
thus
being
become
of
one
assēt
,
he
remaineth
the
dearest
friend
&
most
welcome
gest
that
may
be
,
both
to
the
Lady
&
hir
husband
,
and
the
man
&
wife
so
kind
(
ech
to
other
)
as
if
there
neuer
had
bin
such
a
breache
betwene
them
.
Now
,
of
you
noble
Gouernor
I
would
fayn
learn
,
whether
the
perplexitie
of
the
husband
when
he
looked
in
at
the
key
hole
,
or
of
the
wife
when
she
knewe
the
cause
why
the
slippes
were
so
scattered
,
or
of
the
louer
when
he
knew
what
was
his
Mistres
charge
,
was
greater
of
the
thrée
?
I
might
haue
put
in
also
the
troubled
thoughts
of
the
sisters
&
the
mayd
,
when
they
sawe
their
good
will
reiected
,
but
let
these
thrée
suffise
.
Gentle
Hope
(
quod
F.
I.
)
you
haue
rehearsed
(
&
that
right
eloquētly
)
a
notable
tale
,
or
rather
a
notable
history
,
bycause
you
séeme
to
affirme
,
that
it
was
don
in
déed
of
late
,
&
not
far
hence
.
Wherein
I
note
fiue
especiall
pointes
:
that
is
a
maruelous
pacience
in
the
husband
,
no
lesse
repentance
in
the
wyfe
,
no
small
boldnesse
of
the
mayd
,
but
much
more
rashnesse
in
the
sisters
,
and
last
of
all
,
a
rare
tractabilitie
in
the
louer
.
Neuerthelesse
to
returne
vnto
your
question
,
I
think
the
husbands
perplexitie
greatest
,
bicause
his
losses
abounded
aboue
the
rest
,
&
his
iniuries
were
vncōparable
.
The
Lady
Fraunces
did
not
séeme
to
contrary
him
,
but
rather
smyled
in
hir
sléeue
at
Dame
Pergo
,
who
had
no
lesse
patience
to
heare
the
tale
recited
,
than
the
Lady
Fraūces
had
pleasure
in
telling
of
it
,
but
I
may
not
rehearse
the
cause
why
,
vnlesse
I
shuld
tell
all
.
By
this
time
the
sléeping
houre
aproched
,
&
the
Ladies
prepared
their
departure
,
when
as
mistres
Fraūces
said
vnto
F.I.
Although
percase
I
shal
not
do
it
so
handsomly
as
your
mistres
,
yit
good
Trust
(
quod
she
)
if
you
vouchsafe
it
,
I
can
be
content
to
trim
vp
your
bed
in
the
best
maner
that
I
may
,
as
one
who
would
be
as
glad
as
she
to
procure
your
quiet
rest
.
I.F.
gaue
hir
gret
thāks
desiring
hir
not
to
trouble
hirself
,
but
to
let
his
mā
alone
with
that
charge
:
thus
they
departed
,
and
how
all
parties
tooke
rest
that
night
I
know
not
:
but
in
the
morning
F.I.
began
to
cōsider
w
t
himself
that
he
might
lye
long
enough
in
his
bed
before
his
mistres
would
be
apeased
in
hir
péewish
cōceipts
:
wherfore
he
arose
,
&
being
aparelled
in
his
night
gown
,
tooke
occasion
to
walk
in
the
gallery
néer
adioyning
vnto
his
Mistres
chāber
:
but
ther
might
he
walk
long
enough
ere
his
mistres
would
come
to
walk
with
him
.
When
dinner
time
came
he
wēt
into
the
great
chamber
wheras
the
Lord
of
the
castle
saluted
him
being
ioyful
of
his
recouery
.
F.I.
giuing
dewe
thanks
,
declared
that
his
frendly
entretainement
togither
with
the
great
curtesie
of
the
gentlewomē
was
such
,
as
might
reuiue
a
mā
althogh
he
were
half
dead
.
I
would
be
loth
(
qd
the
hoste
)
that
any
gentlemā
cōming
to
me
for
good
wil
shuld
want
any
curtesie
of
entertainmēt
that
lieth
in
my
power
.
Whē
the
meat
was
serued
to
the
table
,
the
gentlewomē
came
in
all
but
Dame
Elynor
&
mistres
Pergo
,
the
which
F.I.
marked
very
well
,
&
it
did
somewhat
abate
his
apetit
.
After
dinner
,
his
Hope
came
vnto
him
and
demaunded
of
him
howe
hée
would
passe
the
day
for
his
recreation
?
to
whom
he
aunswered
euen
as
it
best
pleased
hir
.
She
deuised
to
walke
into
the
park
,
&
so
by
little
&
litle
to
acquaint
himself
with
the
ayre
:
he
agréed
,
&
they
walked
togither
being
accōpanied
with
one
or
two
other
gentlewomē
.
Here
(
least
you
shuld
grow
in
some
wrong
cōceit
of
F.I.
)
I
must
put
you
out
of
dout
,
that
although
ther
were
now
more
cause
that
he
shuld
mistrust
his
mistres
than
euer
he
had
before
receiued
,
yit
the
vehemēt
passions
which
he
saw
in
hir
whē
the
first
came
to
visit
him
,
&
moreouer
,
the
earnest
words
which
she
pronoūced
in
his
extremity
,
were
such
a
refreshing
to
his
mind
,
as
that
he
determined
no
more
to
trouble
himself
with
like
conceipts
:
cōcluding
further
,
that
if
his
mistres
wer
not
faulty
,
thē
had
he
cōmittted
a
foule
offēce
in
néedlesse
ielousie
,
&
that
if
she
were
faulty
(
especially
with
the
Secretary
)
thē
no
persuasion
could
amend
hir
,
nor
any
passion
help
him
:
and
this
was
the
cause
that
enabled
him
after
such
passing
pangs
to
abyde
the
doubtfull
conclusion
,
thus
manfully
and
valiātly
to
represse
feintnesse
of
his
mind
:
nothing
doubting
but
that
he
should
haue
wonne
his
Mistres
to
pardon
his
presumption
,
&
louingly
to
embrace
his
seruice
in
wonted
maner
,
but
he
was
far
deceyued
,
for
she
was
now
in
another
tewne
,
the
which
Mistres
Fraūces
began
partly
to
discouer
vnto
him
as
they
walked
togither
:
for
shée
burdened
him
that
his
mallady
procéeded
only
of
a
disquiet
mind
.
And
if
it
did
so
my
gentle
Hope
(
quod
he
)
what
remedy
?
My
good
Trust
(
quod
she
)
none
other
but
to
plant
quiet
where
disquiet
began
to
grow
.
I
haue
determined
so
(
qd
he
)
but
I
must
craue
the
helpe
of
your
assured
friēship
.
Therof
you
may
make
accoūpt
(
qd
she
)
but
wherin
?
F.I.
walking
apart
with
hir
,
begā
to
declare
that
ther
was
some
contētion
hapened
betwene
his
mistres
&
him
:
the
Lady
told
him
that
she
was
not
ignorant
therof
.
Thē
he
desired
hir
to
treat
so
much
in
the
cause
,
as
they
might
eftsones
come
to
Parlee
:
therof
I
dare
assure
you
(
qd
Mistresse
Fraunces
,
&
at
their
retorne
she
led
F.I.
into
his
Mistres
chamber
,
whom
thei
found
lying
on
hir
bed
,
whether
galded
with
any
grief
,
or
weary
of
the
thing
(
which
you
wrot
of
)
I
know
not
,
but
there
she
lay
:
vnto
whō
F.I.
gaue
two
or
thrée
salutatiōs
before
she
séemed
to
mark
him
.
At
last
said
the
Lady
Fraunces
vnto
hir
,
your
seruant
hearing
of
your
sicknes
,
hath
aduētured
thus
far
into
the
ayre
to
sée
you
.
I
thank
him
(
qd
Dame
Elynor
)
&
so
lay
still
,
refusing
to
giue
him
any
coūtenāce
.
Wherat
F.
I.
perceyuing
al
the
other
gentlewomen
fal
to
whispering
,
thought
good
,
boldly
to
plead
his
own
case
:
&
aproching
the
bed
begā
to
enforce
his
vnwilling
mistres
vnto
curtesie
,
wherin
he
vsed
such
vehemēce
as
she
could
not
well
by
any
meanes
refuse
to
talke
with
him
:
but
what
their
talk
was
I
may
not
take
vpō
me
to
tell
you
,
vnlesse
you
woul●
haue
me
fill
vp
a
whole
volume
only
with
his
matters
,
and
I
haue
dilated
thē
ouer
largely
already
.
Suffyseth
this
to
be
knowne
,
that
in
the
ende
shee
pretended
to
passe
ouer
all
old
grudges
,
&
thenceforth
to
pleasure
him
as
accasion
might
serue
:
the
which
occasion
was
so
long
in
hapening
,
that
in
the
end
F.I.
being
now
eftsones
troubled
with
vnquiet
fantasies
,
&
forced
to
vse
his
pen
again
as
an
Ambassadour
betwene
thē
:
one
daye
amongst
the
rest
found
oportunitie
to
thrust
a
letter
into
hir
bosome
,
wherin
he
had
earnestly
requested
another
mooneshyne
banquet
or
frydayes
breakfast
to
recomfort
his
dulled
spirits
,
wherunto
the
Dame
yéelded
this
aunswer
in
writing
,
but
of
whose
endyting
iudge
you
.
G.T.
I
can
but
smyle
at
your
simplicity
,
who
burden
your
friends
with
an
impossibility
.
The
case
so
stood
as
I
could
not
though
I
would
.
Wherefore
from
henceforth
eyther
learne
to
frame
your
request
more
reasonably
,
or
else
stand
content
with
a
flat
repulse
.
SHE
.
F.I.
liked
this
letter
but
a
little
:
and
being
thereby
drouen
into
his
accustomed
vayne
,
he
compiled
in
verse
this
answere
following
,
vppon
these
woords
conteined
in
hir
letter
,
I
could
not
though
I
would
.
G.T.
I
could
not
though
I
would
:
good
Lady
say
not
so
,
Since
one
good
word
of
your
good
wil
might
soone
redesse
my
w●
Where
would
is
free
before
,
there
could
can
neuer
fayle
:
For
profe
,
you
see
how
gallies
passe
where
ships
cā
beare
no
sayle
.
The
weary
mariner
when
skies
are
ouercast
,
By
ready
will
doth
guyde
his
skill
and
wins
the
hauen
at
last
.
The
prety
byrd
that
sings
with
pricke
against
hir
brest
,
Doth
make
a
vertue
of
hir
need
to
watch
when
others
rest
.
And
true
the
prouerbe
is
,
which
you
haue
layed
apart
,
There
is
no
hap
can
seeme
to
hard
vnto
a
willing
hart
.
Then
louely
Lady
myne
,
you
say
not
as
you
should
,
In
doubtful
termes
to
aunswer
thus
:
I
could
not
thogh
I
would
.
Yes
,
yes
▪
full
well
you
know
,
your
can
is
quicke
and
good
:
And
wilfull
will
is
eke
too
swift
to
shed
my
giltlesse
blood
.
But
if
good
will
were
bent
as
prest
as
power
is
,
Such
will
would
quickly
find
the
skill
to
mend
that
is
amisse
.
Wherfore
if
you
desire
to
see
my
true
loue
spilt
,
Commaund
and
I
will
slea
my self
,
that
yours
may
be
the
gilt
.
But
if
you
haue
no
power
to
say
your
seruaunt
nay
,
Write
thus
:
I
may
not
as
I
would
,
yit
must
I
as
I
may
.
F.I.
THus
F.I.
replied
vpon
his
Mistres
aunswer
,
hoping
therby
to
recouer
some
fauour
at
hir
hāds
,
but
it
wold
not
be
:
so
that
now
he
had
bene
as
likely
(
as
at
the
first
)
to
haue
fretted
in
fantasies
,
had
not
the
Lady
Fraunces
continually
comforted
him
:
and
by
little
&
little
she
droue
such
reason
into
his
minde
,
that
now
he
began
to
subdue
his
humors
with
discretion
,
and
to
determine
that
if
hée
might
espie
euident
profe
of
his
Mistresse
frayeltie
,
hée
would
then
stand
content
with
pacience
perforce
,
&
giue
his
Mistres
the
Bezo
las
manos
.
And
it
happened
one
day
amongst
others
,
that
he
resorted
to
his
Mistresse
chamber
&
found
hir
(
allo
solito
)
lying
vpon
hir
bed
,
&
the
secretary
with
Dame
Pergo
&
hir
handmayd
keping
of
hir
cōpany
.
Wherat
F.I.
somwhat
repyning
,
came
to
hir
and
fell
to
dalliāce
,
as
one
that
had
now
rather
aduēture
to
be
thought
presumptious
than
yéeld
to
be
accompted
bashfull
,
he
cast
his
arme
ouer
his
Mistresse
and
began
t●
accuse
hir
of
slogishnes
,
vsing
some
other
bold
partes
,
as
well
to
prouoke
hir
,
as
also
to
gréeue
the
other
.
The
Lady
séemed
little
to
delight
in
his
dallying
,
but
cast
a
glance
at
hir
secretary
and
therwith
smyled
,
when
as
the
Secretary
&
dame
Pergo
burst
out
into
open
laughter
.
The
which
F.I.
perceyuing
,
and
disdayning
hir
ingratitude
,
was
forced
to
depart
,
and
in
that
fantasie
compyled
this
Sonet
.
G.T.
WIth
hir
in
armes
that
had
my
hart
in
hold
,
I
stoode
of
late
to
plead
for
pittie
so
:
And
as
I
did
hir
louely
lookes
behold
,
She
cast
a
glance
vppon
my
ryuall
foe
.
His
fleering
face
prouoked
hir
to
smyle
,
When
my
salte
teares
were
drowned
in
disdayne
:
He
glad
,
I
sad
,
he
laught
,
(
alas
the
while
)
I
wept
for
woe
:
I
pyn'd
for
deadly
payne
.
And
when
I
sawe
none
other
boote
preuayle
,
But
reasons
rule
must
guide
my
skilfull
minde
:
Why
then
(
quod
I
)
olde
prouerbes
neuer
fayle
,
For
yet
was
neuer
good
Cat
out
of
kinde
:
Nor
woman
true
but
euen
as
stories
tell
,
Woon
with
an
egge
,
and
lost
againe
with
shall
.
F.
I.
THis
Sonet
declareth
that
he
began
nowe
to
accompt
of
hir
as
she
deserued
,
for
it
hath
a
sharpe
conclusion
,
and
it
is
somewhat
too
generall
.
Wel
,
as
it
is
he
lost
it
where
his
Mistresse
found
it
,
and
she
immediatly
emparted
the
same
vnto
Dame
Pergo
,
and
Dame
Pergo
vnto
others
:
so
that
it
quickely
became
common
in
the
house
.
Amongst
others
Mistresse
Fraunces
hauing
recouered
a
copie
of
it
,
did
séeme
to
pardon
the
generallitie
,
and
to
be
well
pleased
with
the
perticularitie
therof
,
the
which
she
bewrayed
one
day
vnto
F.I.
in
this
wise
.
Of
all
the
ioyes
that
euer
I
had
(
my
good
Trust
quod
she
)
there
is
none
wherein
I
take
more
comforte
than
in
your
comformitie
,
and
although
your
present
rage
is
such
that
you
can
bée
content
to
condemne
a
nomber
vnknowen
,
for
the
transgression
of
one
too
well
knowne
:
yet
I
do
rather
reioyce
that
you
should
iudge
your
pleasure
ouer
many
,
than
to
be
abused
by
any
.
My
good
Hope
(
quod
he
)
it
were
not
reason
that
after
such
manifold
proofes
of
your
exceding
curtesies
,
I
should
vse
straunge
or
contentious
spéech
with
so
deare
a
friend
,
and
in
déede
I
must
confesse
that
the
opinion
which
I
haue
conceiued
of
my
Mistresse
,
hath
stirred
my
penne
to
write
very
hardly
against
all
the
feminine
gender
,
but
I
pray
you
pardon
me
(
quod
he
)
&
if
it
please
y●u
I
wil
recant
●●tas
also
(
percase
)
I
was
but
●loyed
with
Surquedry
,
and
presumed
to
think
more
than
may
be
proued
.
Yea
but
how
if
it
were
proued
quod
Dame
Fraunces
?
If
it
were
so
(
which
God
forbid
quod
he
)
then
coulde
you
not
blame
me
to
conceiue
that
opinion
.
Howsoeuer
I
might
blame
you
(
quod
she
)
I
meane
not
to
blame
you
,
but
I
demaund
further
,
if
it
be
as
I
thinke
&
you
suspect
,
what
will
you
then
do
?
Surely
(
quod
F.
I.
)
I
haue
deter●ed
to
drinke
vp
mine
owne
sorowe
secretely
,
and
to
bid
them
both
a
Dieu
.
I
like
your
farewell
better
than
your
fantasie
(
quod
she
)
and
whensoeuer
you
can
be
content
to
take
so
much
paynes
,
as
the
Knight
(
which
had
a
night
gowne
garded
with
naked
swordes
)
dyd
take
,
I
thinke
you
may
put
your selfe
out
of
doubt
of
all
these
thinges
.
By
these
wordes
and
other
spéech
which
she
vttered
vnto
him
,
F.I.
smelt
how
the
world
went
about
,
and
therfore
did
one
day
in
the
grey
morning
aduēture
to
passe
through
the
gallery
towards
his
Mistres
chamber
,
hoping
to
haue
found
the
doore
open
,
but
he
found
the
contrary
,
and
there
attending
in
good
deuocion
,
heard
the
parting
of
his
Mistresse
and
hir
Secretary
,
with
many
kind
words
:
wherby
it
appeared
that
the
one
was
very
loth
to
departe
from
the
other
.
F.I.
was
enforced
to
beare
this
burden
,
and
after
he
had
attended
there
as
long
as
the
light
wold
giue
him
leaue
,
he
departed
also
to
his
chamber
,
and
aparaling
himselfe
,
could
not
be
quiet
vntill
he
had
spoken
with
his
Mistresse
,
whom
he
burdened
flatly
with
this
despitefull
trechery
:
and
she
as
fast
denied
it
,
vntill
at
last
being
still
vrged
with
such
euident
tokens
as
he
alleged
,
she
gaue
him
this
bone
to
g●awe
vppon
.
And
if
I
did
so
(
quod
she
)
what
than
?
Whereunto
F.I.
made
none
answere
,
but
departed
with
this
farewell
.
My
losse
is
mine
owne
,
and
your
gayne
is
none
of
yours
,
and
soner
can
I
recouer
my
losse
than
you
enioye
the
gaine
which
you
gape
after
.
And
whan
he
was
in
place
sollitary
,
he
compyled
these
following
for
a
fynall
end
of
the
matter
.
G.
T.
And
if
I
did
what
then
?
Are
you
agreeu'd
therfore
?
The
Sea
hath
fishe
for
euery
man
,
And
what
would
you
haue
more
?
Thus
did
my
Mistresse
once
,
Amaze
my
mind
with
doubt
:
And
〈◊〉
a
question
for
the
nonce
,
To
beate
my
braynes
about
▪
Wherto
I
thus
replied
,
Eche
fisherman
can
wishe
,
That
all
the
Sea
at
euery
tyde
,
Were
his
alone
to
fishe
.
And
so
did
I
(
in
vaine
,
)
But
since
it
may
not
be
:
Let
such
fishe
there
as
find
the
gaine
,
And
lea●e
the
losse
for
me
.
And
with
such
lucke
and
losse
,
I
will
content
my selfe
:
Till
tydes
of
turning
time
may
tosse
,
Such
fishers
on
the
shelfe
.
And
when
they
sticke
on
sands
,
That
euery
man
may
see
:
Then
will
I
laugh
and
clappe
my
hands
,
As
they
do
now
at
meo
.
F.I.
IT
is
time
now
to
make
an
end
of
this
thriftlesse
Historie
,
wherein
although
I
could
wade
much
f●rther
,
as
to
declare
his
departure
,
what
thankes
he
gaue
to
his
Hope
&c
.
Yet
I
will
cease
,
as
one
that
had
rather
leaue
it
vnperfect
than
make
it
to
plaine
.
I
haue
past
it
ouer
with
quod
he
,
and
quod
she
,
after
my
homely
manner
of
writing
,
vsing
sundry
names
for
one
person
,
as
the
Dame
,
the
Lady
,
Mistresse
,
&c
.
The
Lorde
of
the
Castle
,
the
Master
of
the
house
,
and
the
hoste
:
neuerthelesse
for
that
I
haue
séene
good
aucthors
terme
euery
gentle
woman
a
Lady
,
and
euery
gentleman
domine
,
I
haue
thought
it
no
greater
faulte
then
pettie
treason
thus
to
enter
myngle
them
,
nothing
doubting
but
you
will
easely
,
vnderstand
my
meaning
,
and
that
is
asmuch
as
I
desire
.
Now
henceforwardes
I
will
trouble
you
no
more
with
such
a
barbarous
style
in
prose
,
but
will
onely
recite
vnto
you
sundry
verses
written
by
sundry
gentlemen
,
adding
nothing
of
myne
owne
,
but
onely
a
tytle
to
euery
Poeme
,
wherby
the
cause
of
writinge
the
same
maye
the
more
euidently
appeare
:
Neyther
can
I
declare
vnto
you
who
wrote
the
greatest
part
of
them
,
for
they
are
vnto
me
but
a
pos●e
presented
out
of
sundry
gardens
,
neither
haue
I
any
other
names
of
the
flowers
,
but
such
short
notes
as
the
aucthors
themselues
haue
deliuered
therby
if
you
can
gesse
them
,
it
shall
no
waye
offende
mée
.
I
will
begin
with
this
translation
as
followeth
.
G.
T.