Rutter, Joseph · published 1635 · first performed or written 1634 [1633-1635] (Annals) pastoral · Queen Henrietta Maria's Men · before the Court unassigned nearest T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint · 468 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of the nearest topic T4: love, heart, sweet, loves, fair, phillis, eyes, beauty, amyntas, lovers.
Why, do not you love him as much as I? Love him? I know no greater misery, Then to love one that's not of humane race, A Tiger rather, but a Tiger is More mild than he. For love's sake say not so. He has a manly feature, and does show As much of grace in his comportment, as The best of shepherds can him Titan made Of better clay, than he did other men: Although his heart be flint, and hardest rock. Yet is his heart so hard, or are my parts Rather unequal to his high deserts? For he can love I see, since you he loves, And you deserve it: had he thought me worthy, He would have loved me too; but as I am Worthless Dorinda, I am made his scorn, And I had rather be so, than Nerina Should want a servant such as Daphnis is. Prithee no more of him, I hate his name As much, as I would do the loss of honour, Which he injuriously would rob me off, No, no, Dorinda, if by love I be enthralled to any, Daphnis is not he. Why, is there any can deserve you more? Yes many, that I could tell how to love Rather than him: for why should I love him Whilst Hylas lives and languishes for me? Hylas who loved me in my infancy, And being then a boy was never well If I was absent, nor indeed was I Content with any but his company. Our flocks still fed together, I on him, And he on me did feed his greedy eyes. Since though his years have styled him man, he has Continued that first love with such respects, So full of innocence and simple truth, That howsoe'er my outward coyness is, My heart within tells me, 'tis only his: Ay me! my father! prithee let's away. But Daphnis comes with him, for loves sake stay. PAn be as cruel to his flocks and him, As he has been to me. Go, leave your cursing, And follow her, let me alone with him. Ha! have I found you? Hoh! Nerina, stay, Your father calls you; was not that my daughter That made away so fast? Who, she that's gone? believe your eyes no more, they are false to you. Could you take one for her, that's nothing like her. 'twas Cloris went from us. Is't possible? 'tis true. I thought, that it had been my love. I durst have sworn that she had been my daughter, What made she here? 'Twill ne'er be otherwise; Young women will be chatting with young men, whate'er their father say. It was not so When I was young, a boy, as you are, shepherds. we are not men with him, till after fifty.
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Why, do not you love him as much as I? Love him? I know no greater miſery, Then to love one that's not of humane race, A Tyger rather, but a Tyger is More milde then he. For loves ſake ſay not ſo. He has a manly feature, and does ſhew As much of grace in his comportment, as The beſt of ſhepheards can him Titan made Of better clay, then he did other men: Although his heart be flint, and hardeſt rocke. Yet is his heart ſo hard, or are my parts Rather unequall to his high deſerts? For he can love I ſee, ſince you he loves, And you deſerve it: had he thought me worthy, He would have lov'd me too; but as I am Worthleſſe Dorinda, I am made his ſcorne, And I had rather be ſo, then Nerina Should want a ſervant ſuch as Daphnis is. Prethee no more of him, I hate his name As much, as I would do the loſſe of honor, Which he injuriouſly would rob me off, No, no, Dorinda, if by love I be Inhrald to any, Daphnis is not he. Why, is there any can deſerve you more? Yes many, that I could tell how to love Rather then him: for why ſhould I love him Whilſt Hylas lives and languiſhes for me? Hylas who lov'd me in my infancy, And being then a boy was never well If I was abſent, nor indeed was I Content with any but his company. Our flocks ſtill fed together, I on him, And he on me did feed his greedie eyes. Since though his yeares have ſtild him man, he has Continu'd that firſt love with ſuch reſpects, So full of innocence and ſimple truth, That howſoere my outward coyneſſe is, My heart within tells me, 'tis onely his: Ay me! my father! prithee let's away. But Daphnis comes with him, for loves ſake ſtay. PAn be as cruell to his flocks and him, As he has bin to me. Go, leave your curſing, And follow her, let me alone with him. Ha! have I found you? Hoh! Nerina, ſtay, Your father calls you; was not that my daughter That made away ſo faſt? Who, ſhe thats gon? eleeve your eies no more, they are falſe to you. Could you take one for her, thats nothing like her. Twas Cloris went from us. Iſt poſſible? Tis true. I thought, that it had bin my love. I durſt have ſworne that ſhe had bin my daughter, What made ſhe here? 'Twill nere be otherwiſe; Young women will be chatting with young men, What ere their father ſay. It was not ſo When I was young, a boy, as you are, ſhepheards. Wee are not men with him, till after fiftie.