ELIZABETHAN LYRICS. GEORGE GASCOIGNE, The Adventures of Master Ferdinando Ieronimi, Posies, 1575. SONNET. THE stately dames of Rome their pearls did wear But she whom I do serve, her pearls doth bear A bloody heart within so white a breast- GEORGE GASCOIGNE, Posies, THE STRANGE PASSION OF A LOVER. AMID my bale I bathe in bliss, I swim in heaven, I sink in hell; I find amends for every miss And yet my moan no tongue can tell. 5 10 I live and love, what would you more? 5 I laugh sometimes with little lust, And yet mistrust breeds mine annoy. I live and lack, I lack and have, I have and miss the thing I crave. These things seem strange, yet are they true; Both slakes my grief and breeds my grutch. Then like the lark that passed the night Yet when she spies the pleasant light ΙΟ 15 20 The which to thee, dear wench, I write, That know'st my mirth, but not my moan. I pray God grant thee deep delight, I cannot live, it will not be, 35 SIR WALTER RALEIGH (?) in MS. Rawl. 85, fol. 124, date uncertain. PILGRIM TO PILGRIM. As you came from the holy land Met you not with my true love How shall I know your true love, That have met many one, As I went to the holy land, That have come, that have gone? She is neither white nor brown, But as the heavens fair; There is none hath a form so divine In the earth or the air. Such a one did I meet, good sir, Such an angel-like face, Who like a queen, like a nymph, did appear, By her gait, by her grace. She hath left me here all alone, All alone, as unknown, Who sometimes did me lead with herself, And me loved as her own. What's the cause that she leaves you alone, And a new way doth take, Who loved you once as her own, And her joy did you make? 5 ΙΟ 15 20 I have loved her all my youth, Know that Love is a careless child, He is blind, he is deaf when he list, His desire is, a dureless content, And a trustless joy; He is won with a world of despair And is lost with a toy. Of womankind such indeed is the love, Or the word love abusèd, Under which many childish desires And conceits are excused. 40 35 330 25 |