I Saw your Since first I saw your face I resolved to honour and renown ye; If now I be disdained I wish my heart had never known ye. What? I that loved and you that liked shall we begin to wrangle? No, no, no, my heart is fast, and cannot disentangle. If I admire or praise you too much, that fault you may forgive me, Or if my hands had strayed but a touch, then justly might you leave me. I asked you leave, you bade me love; is 't now a time to chide me? No, no, no, I'll love you still what fortune e'er betide me. The sun whose beams most glorious are rejecteth no beholder, And your sweet beauty past compare made my poor eyes the bolder: SINCE FIRST I SAW YOUR FACE Where beauty moves, and wit delights and signs of kindness bind me, There, O there! where'er I go I'll leave my heart behind me. (B 325) 17 с Chloris think, because Let me not Chloris think, because I was made to be the prey Though others may her brow adore, Yet more must I that therein see far more Than any other's eyes have power to see; She is to me More than to any others she can be. I can discern more secret notes That in the margin of her cheeks Love quotes Than any else besides have art to read; No looks proceed From those fair eyes but to me wonder breed. LET ME NOT CHLORIS THINK O then why Should she fly From him to whom her sight Doth add so much above her might? Why should not she Still joy to reign in me? She than whom no Fairer is? 'Art thou that she than whom no fairer is? Art thou that she desire so strives to kiss?" Say I am: how then? Maids may not kiss Such wanton-humoured men." "Art thou that she the world commends for wit? Art thou so wise and makest no use of it?" Say I am: how then? My wit doth teach me shun |