Daniel, Samuel · published 1615 · first performed or written 1614 [Feb 2] (Annals) pastoral; tragicomedy · before the Court unassigned nearest T48 Addressing a lady: love, desire and inti · 528 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of the nearest topic T48: lady, love, heart, fair, eyes, la, lord, tears, fie, face.
Some beasts do wear grey beards beside your goats: And bear with him, this suit bewrays young thoughts Ah was it not enough to be oppressed With that confounding passion of my love And her disdain, but that I must be torn With wrath and envy too, and have no vein Free from the rack of sufferings, that I can Nor speak nor think but most distractedly? How shall I now begin, that have no way To let out any passion by itself, But that they all will thrust together so As none will be expressed as they ought? But something I must say now I am here. And be it what it will, love, envy wrath, Or all together in a cumberment, My words must be like me, perplexed and rent, And so I'll to her. Phi. Lidia, see he comes. He comes indeed, and as methinks doth More trouble in his face by far, than love. Fair Phillis, and too fair for such a one, show Unless you kinder were, or better than I know you are: how much I have endured For you, although you scorn to know, I feel, And did imagine, that in being a man Who might deserve regard, I should have been Preferred before a boy. But well, I see Your seeming and your being disagree. What Lidia, doth he brawl? what means he thus To speak and look in this strange sort on me? Well modest Phillis, never look so coy, These eyes beheld you dallying with a boy. Me with a boy, Montanus? when? where? how? Today, here, in most lascivious sort. Ah, ha, belike he saw you Phillis, when This morning you did strive with Cloris boy To have your garland, which he snatched away, And kept it from you by strong force and might: And you again laid hold upon the same, And held it fast until with much ado He wrung it from your hands, and got away. And this is that great matter which he saw. Now fie Montanus fie, are you so gross, T'imagine such a worthy nymph as she Would be in love with such a youth as he? Why now you have undone your credit quite, You never can make her amends for this So impious a surmise, nor ever can She, as she reason hath, but must despise your grossness; who should rather have come in And righted her, then suffer such a one To offer an indignity so vile, And you stand prying in a bush the while. What do I hear? what, am I not myself? How? have mine eyes double undone me then? First seeing Phillis face, and now her fact, Or else the fact I saw, I did not see? And since thou hast my understanding wronged, And traitorlike given false intelligence, Whereby my judgement comes to pass amiss. And yet I think my sense was in the right: And yet in this amaze I cannot tell, But howsoe'er, I in an error am, In loving, or believing, or in both. And therefore Phillis, at thy feet I fall, And pardon crave for this my gross surmise.
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Some beasts doe weare gray beards beside your goates: And bear with him, this suit bewraies yong thoghts Ah was it not enough to be opprest With that confounding passion of my loue And her disdaine, but that I must be torne With wrath and enuie too, and haue no veine Free from the racke of suffrings, that I can Nor speake nor thinke but most distractedly? How shall I now begin, that haue no way To let out any passion by it selfe, But that they all will thrust together so As none will be expressed as they ought? But something I must say now I am here. And be it what it will, loue, enuie wrath, Or all together in a comberment, My words must be like me, perplext and rent, And so I'le to her. Phi. Lidia, see he comes. He comes indeed, and as me thinkes doth More trouble in his face by farre, then loue. Faire Phillis, and too faire for such a one, shew Vnlesse you kinder were, or better then I know you are: how much I haue endur'd For you, although you skorne to know, I feele, And did imagine, that in being a man Who might deserue regard, I should haue bin Prefer'd before a boy. But well, I see Your seeming and your being disagree. What Lidia, doth he brawle? what meanes he thus To speake and looke in this strange sort on me? VVell modest Phillis, neuer looke so coy, These eyes beheld you dallying with a boy. Me with a boy, Montanus? when? where? how? To day, here, in most lasciuious sort. Ah, ha, belike he sawe you Phillis, when This morning you did striue with Cloris boy To haue your garland, which he snatcht away, And kept it from you by strong force and might: And you againe laid hold vpon the same, And held it fast vntill with much adoe He wrung it from your hands, and got away. And this is that great matter which he saw. Now fye Montanus fye, are you so grosse, T'imagine such a worthy nymph as shee VVould be inloue with such a youth as he? VVhy now you hauc vndone your credit quite, You neuer can make her amends for this So impious a surmise, nor euer can Shee, as shee reason hath, but must despise your grossenesse; who should rather haue come in And righted her, then suffer such a one To offer an indignity so vile, And you stand prying in a bush the while. VVhat do I heare? what, am I not my selfe? How? haue mine eyes double vndone me then? First seeing Phillis face, and now her fact, Or else the fact I saw, I did not see? And since thou hast my vnderstanding wrong'd, And traytour-like giuen false intelligence, VVhereby my iudgement comes to passe amisse. And yet I thinke my sence was in the right: And yet in this amaze I cannot tell, But howsoere, I in an errour am, In louing, or beleeuing, or in both. And therefore Phillis, at thy feet I fall, And pardon craue for this my grosse surmise.