Heywood, John · published 1534 · first performed or written 1534 [1533-1534] (Annals) not in BritDrama T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint typicality 0.76 · 481 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T4: love, heart, sweet, loves, fair, phillis, eyes, beauty, amyntas, lovers.
As these twain us tweyn now grant first to break sins twain to be hard, at ones can not speak I now desire your grant, that I may open first tale which now is at point to be spoken which I crave no whit my part to advance But with the pith to avoid circumstance Speke what and when so ever it please you Till reason will me, I will not disease you Sirs other here is a very weak brain Or she hath if any a very weak pain For I put case that my love I her gave And that for my love, her love I did crave For which though I daily sew day by day what loss or pain to her if she say nay yes by saint Mary so the case may stand That some woman had liefer take in hand To ride on your errand on hundredth mile Then to say nay one Pater noster while If ye on her part any pain define which is the more painful her pain or mine your pain is most if she say nay and take it But if that she say nay and forsake it Then is her pain a great way the greater Sir ye allege this nay in this matter As though my denial my sewter to love where all or the most pain that to me doth move wherein the truth is a contrary plain For though to oft speaking one thing be a pain yet is that one word the full of my hoping To bring his hoping to despair at ending Thus is this nay which ye take my most grief Though it be painful yet my most relief But my most pain is all an other thing which though ye forget or hide by dyssymyling I partly showed you, but all I could nor can But masters to you with pain of this man That pain that I compare is partly this I am loved of one whom the truth is I can not love, and so it is with me That from hym in maner I neuer can l And every one word in sewt of his part nips through mine ears and rons through my heart His ghastful look so pale that uneath I Dare for mine ears cast toward him an eye And when I do that eye my thought presentyth Straight to my heart and thus my pain augmenteth One tale so oft alas and so importune His exclamations sometime on fortune Some time on himself some time upon me And for that thing that if my death should be Brought straight in place except I were content To grant the same, yet could I not assent And he seeing this yet seasyth not to crave what death could be worse than this life that I have
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As theſe twayne vs tweyn nowe graunt fyrſt to breke Syns twayn to be harde, at ones can not ſpeke I now deſyre your graunt, that I may open Fyrſt tale which nowe is at poynt to be ſpoken which I craue no whyt my parte to auaunce But with the pyth to auoyde circumſtaunce Speke what and whan ſo euer it pleaſe you Tyll reaſon wyll me, I wyll not dyſeaſe you Syrs other here is a very weyke brayne Or ſhe hath if any a very weyke payne For I put caſe that my loue I her gaue And that for my loue, her loue I dyd craue For which though I dayly ſew day by day what loſſe or payne to her if ſhe ſay nay yes by ſaynt Mary ſo the caſe may ſtande That ſome woman had leuer take in hande To ryde on your errand on hundreth myle Then to ſay nay one Pater noſter whyle If ye on her parte any payne defyne which is the more paynefull her payne or myne your payne is moſt if ſhe ſay nay and take it But if that ſhe ſay nay and forſake it Then is her payne a great way the greater Syr ye alledge this nay in this mater As though my denyal my ſewter to loue where all or the moſt payne that to me doth moue wherin the treuth is a contrary playne For though to ofte ſpekyng one thyng be a payne yet is that one worde the full of my hopyng To bryng his hopyng to dyſpayre at endyng Thus is this nay which ye take my moſt grefe Though it be paynefull yet my moſt relefe But my moſt payne is all an other thyng which though ye forget or hyde by dyſſymylyng I partely ſhewed you, but all I coulde nor can But mayſters to you with payne of this man That payne that I compare is partely this I am loued of one whome the treuth is I can not loue, and ſo it is with me That from hym in maner I neuer can l And euery one worde in ſewt of his parte Nyps through myne eares and rons through my harte His gaſtfull loke ſo pale that vnneth I Dare for myne eares caſt towarde hym an eye And whan I do that eye my thought preſentyth Streyght to my hart and thus my payne augmentyth One tale ſo ofte alas and ſo importune His exclamacions ſomtyme on fortune Some tyme on hymſelfe ſome tyme vpon me And for that thyng that if my deth ſholde be Brought ſtreyght in place except I were content To graunt the ſame, yet coulde I not aſſent And he ſeyng this yet ſeaſyth not to craue what deth coulde be worſe then this lyfe that I haue