O my hart and O my hart!
Sens I must nedys from my love departAnd know no cunse wherefore.
Henry Viii King Of England
Whoso that wyll all feattes optayne,
For love enforyth all nobyle kyndAnd dysdayne dyscorages all gentyl mynd.Wherefor to love and be not lovedIs wors then deth? Let it be proved!Love encoragith and makyth on bold;Dysdayne abattyth and makith hym colde.Love ys gevyn to God and man;To woman also, I thynk, the same.But dysdayne ys vice and shuld be refused;Yet never the…
Withowt dyscord
Now let us be;Bothe hartes aloneTo set in oneBest semyth me.For when one soleYs in the doleOf lovys payne,Then helpe must haveHymselfe to saveAnd love to optayne.Wherfore now weThat lovers beLet us now prayOnys love sureFor to procureWithowt denay.Wher love so sewith,Ther no hart rewithBut condyscend;Yf contrarye,What remedy?God yt amen.
The tyme of youthe is to be spent;
Pastymes ther be I nought treulyeWhych one may use, and vice denye;And they be plesant to God and man,Those shuld we covit wyn who can;As featys of armys, and suche otherWherby actyvenesse oon may utter.Comparysons in them may lawfully be sett,For therby corage is suerly owt fett:Vertue it is then youth for to spendIn goode…
1 Though some saith that youth ruleth me,
3 God and my right and my duty,4 From them I shall never vary,5 Though some say that youth ruleth me.6 I pray you all that aged be,7 How well did ye your youth carry?8 I think some worse, of each degree:9 Therein a wager lay dare I,10 Though some saith that youth ruleth me.11…
1 Lusty Youth should us ensue.
3 For whatsoever they do him tell,4 It is not for him, we know it well.5 For they would have him his Liberty refrain6 And all merry company for to disdain,7 But I will not so whatsoever they say,8 But follow his mind in all that we may.9 How should Youth himself best use10 But…
1 Though that men do call it dotage,
3 And whosoever may love get,4 From Venus sure he must it fet5 Or else from her which is her heir,6 And she to him must seem most fair.7 With eye and mind doth both agree.8 There is no boot: there must it be.9 The eye doth look and represent,10 But mind afformeth with full…