1 White as Lillies was hir face,
When shee smiled,
She beguiled,
Quitting faith with foule disgrace,
Vertue seruice thus neglected,
Heart with sorrowes hath infected.
2 When I swore my hart hir owne,
Shee disdained,
I complained,
Yet shee left mee ouerthrowen,
Careles of my bitter groning,
Ruthlesse bent to no relieuing.
3 Vowes and oaths and faith assured,
Constant euer,
Changing neuer,
Yet shee could not bee procured,
To beleeue my paines exceeding,
From hir scant neglect proceeding.
4 Oh that Loue should haue the art,
By surmises,
And disguises,
To destroy a faithfull hart,
Or that wanton looking women,
Should reward their friends as foemen.
5 All in vaine is Ladies loue,
Quickly choosed,
Shortly loosed,
For their pride is to remoue,
Out alas their looks first won vs,
And their pride hath straight vndone vs.
6 To thy selfe the sweetest faier,
Thou hast wounded,
And confounded,
Changles faith with foule dispaier,
And my seruice hath enuied,
And my succours hath denied.
7 By thine error thou hast lost,
Hart vnfained,
Truth vnstained,
And the swaine that loued most,
More assured in loue then many,
More dispised in loue then any.
8 For my hart though set at nought,
Since you will it,
Spoile and kill it,
I will neuer change my thoughts,
But grieue that beautie ere was borne.
[ And so Ile liue as one forlorne. ]
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