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FROM off a hill whose concave womb reworded
A plaintful story from a sistering vale
,
My spirits to attend this double voice accorded
,
And down I laid to list the sad-tuned tale
;
Ere long espied a fickle maid full pale
,
Tearing of papers
,
breaking rings a-twain
,
Storming her world with sorrow's wind and rain
.
Upon her head a platted hive of straw
,
Which fortified her visage from the sun
,
Whereon the thought might think sometime it saw
The carcass of beauty spent and done:
Time had not scythed all that youth begun
,
Nor youth all quit
;
but
,
spite of heaven's fell rage
,
Some beauty peep'd through lattice of sear'd age
.
Oft did she heave her napkin to her eyne
,
Which on it had conceited characters
,
Laundering the silken figures in the brine
That season'd woe had pelleted in tears
,
And often reading what contents it bears
;
As often shrieking undistinguish'd woe
,
In clamours of all size
,
both high and low
.
Sometimes her levell'd eyes their carriage ride
,
As they did battery to the spheres intend
;
Sometime diverted their poor balls are tied
To the orbed earth
;
sometimes they do extend
Their view right on
;
anon their gazes lend
To every place at once
,
and
,
nowhere fix'd
,
The mind and sight distractedly commix'd
.
Her hair
,
nor loose nor tied in formal plat
,
Proclaim'd in her a careless hand of pride
For some
,
untuck'd
,
descended her sheaved hat
,
Hanging her pale and pined cheek beside
;
Some in her threaden fillet still did bide
,
And true to bondage would not break from thence
,
Though slackly braided in loose negligence
.
A thousand favours from a maund she drew
Of amber
,
crystal
,
and of beaded jet
,
Which one by one she in a river threw
,
Upon whose weeping margent she was set
;
Like usury
,
applying wet to wet
,
Or monarch's hands that let not bounty fall
Where want cries some
,
but where excess begs all
.
Of folded schedules had she many a one
,
Which she perused
,
sigh'd
,
tore
,
and gave the flood
;
Crack'd many a ring of posied gold and bone
Bidding them find their sepulchres in mud
;
Found yet moe letters sadly penn'd in blood
,
With sleided silk feat and affectedly
Enswathed
,
and seal'd to curious secrecy
.
These often bathed she in her fluxive eyes
,
And often kiss'd
,
and often 'gan to tear:
Cried 'O false blood
,
thou register of lies
,
What unapproved witness dost thou bear
!
Ink would have seem'd more black and damned here
!
'
This said
,
in top of rage the lines she rents
,
Big discontent so breaking their contents
.
A reverend man that grazed his cattle nigh--
Sometime a blusterer
,
that the ruffle knew
Of court
,
of city
,
and had let go by
The swiftest hours
,
observed as they flew--
Towards this afflicted fancy fastly drew
,
And
,
privileged by age
,
desires to know
In brief the grounds and motives of her woe
.
So slides he down upon his grained bat
,
And comely-distant sits he by her side
;
When he again desires her
,
being sat
,
Her grievance with his hearing to divide:
If that from him there may be aught applied
Which may her suffering ecstasy assuage
,
'Tis promised in the charity of age
.
'Father
,
' she says
,
'though in me you behold
The injury of many a blasting hour
,
Let it not tell your judgment I am old
;
Not age
,
but sorrow
,
over me hath power:
I might as yet have been a spreading flower
,
Fresh to myself
,
If I had self-applied
Love to myself and to no love beside
.
'But
,
woe is me
!
too early I attended
A youthful suit--it was to gain my grace--
Of one by nature's outwards so commended
,
That maidens' eyes stuck over all his face:
Love lack'd a dwelling
,
and made him her place
;
And when in his fair parts she did abide
,
She was new lodged and newly deified
.
'His browny locks did hang in crooked curls
;
And every light occasion of the wind
Upon his lips their silken parcels hurls
.
What's sweet to do
,
to do will aptly find:
Each eye that saw him did enchant the mind
,
For on his visage was in little drawn
What largeness thinks in Paradise was sawn
.
'Small show of man was yet upon his chin
;
His phoenix down began but to appear
Like unshorn velvet on that termless skin
Whose bare out-bragg'd the web it seem'd to wear:
Yet show'd his visage by that cost more dear
;
And nice affections wavering stood in doubt
If best were as it was
,
or best without
.
'His qualities were beauteous as his form
,
For maiden-tongued he was
,
and thereof free
;
Yet
,
if men moved him
,
was he such a storm
As oft 'twixt May and April is to see
,
When winds breathe sweet
,
untidy though they be
.
His rudeness so with his authorized youth
Did livery falseness in a pride of truth
.
'Well could he ride
,
and often men would say
'That horse his mettle from his rider takes:
Proud of subjection
,
noble by the sway
,
What rounds
,
what bounds
,
what course
,
what stop
he makes
!
'
And controversy hence a question takes
,
Whether the horse by him became his deed
,
Or he his manage by the well-doing steed
.
'But quickly on this side the verdict went:
His real habitude gave life and grace
To appertainings and to ornament
,
Accomplish'd in himself
,
not in his case:
All aids
,
themselves made fairer by their place
,
Came for additions
;
yet their purposed trim
Pieced not his grace
,
but were all graced by him
.
'So on the tip of his subduing tongue
All kinds of arguments and question deep
,
All replication prompt
,
and reason strong
,
For his advantage still did wake and sleep:
To make the weeper laugh
,
the laugher weep
,
He had the dialect and different skill
,
Catching all passions in his craft of will:
'That he did in the general bosom reign
Of young
,
of old
;
and sexes both enchanted
,
To dwell with him in thoughts
,
or to remain
In personal duty
,
following where he haunted:
Consents bewitch'd
,
ere he desire
,
have granted
;
And dialogued for him what he would say
,
Ask'd their own wills
,
and made their wills obey
.
'Many there were that did his picture get
,
To serve their eyes
,
and in it put their mind
;
Like fools that in th' imagination set
The goodly objects which abroad they find
Of lands and mansions
,
theirs in thought assign'd
;
And labouring in moe pleasures to bestow them
Than the true gouty landlord which doth owe them:
'So many have
,
that never touch'd his hand
,
Sweetly supposed them mistress of his heart
.
My woeful self
,
that did in freedom stand
,
And was my own fee-simple
,
not in part
,
What with his art in youth
,
and youth in art
,
Threw my affections in his charmed power
,
Reserved the stalk and gave him all my flower
.
'Yet did I not
,
as some my equals did
,
Demand of him
,
nor being desired yielded
;
Finding myself in honour so forbid
,
With safest distance I mine honour shielded:
Experience for me many bulwarks builded
Of proofs new-bleeding
,
which remain'd the foil
Of this false jewel
,
and his amorous spoil
.
'But
,
ah
,
who ever shunn'd by precedent
The destined ill she must herself assay
?
Or forced examples
,
'gainst her own content
,
To put the by-past perils in her way
?
Counsel may stop awhile what will not stay
;
For when we rage
,
advice is often seen
By blunting us to make our wits more keen
.
'Nor gives it satisfaction to our blood
,
That we must curb it upon others' proof
;
To be forbod the sweets that seem so good
,
For fear of harms that preach in our behoof
.
O appetite
,
from judgment stand aloof
!
The one a palate hath that needs will taste
,
Though Reason weep
,
and cry
,
'It is thy last
.
'
'For further I could say 'This man's untrue
,
'
And knew the patterns of his foul beguiling
;
Heard where his plants in others' orchards grew
,
Saw how deceits were gilded in his smiling
;
Knew vows were ever brokers to defiling
;
Thought characters and words merely but art
,
And bastards of his foul adulterate heart
.
'And long upon these terms I held my city
,
Till thus he gan besiege me: 'Gentle maid
,
Have of my suffering youth some feeling pity
,
And be not of my holy vows afraid:
That's to ye sworn to none was ever said
;
For feasts of love I have been call'd unto
,
Till now did ne'er invite
,
nor never woo
.
''All my offences that abroad you see
Are errors of the blood
,
none of the mind
;
Love made them not: with acture they may be
,
Where neither party is nor true nor kind:
They sought their shame that so their shame did find
;
And so much less of shame in me remains
,
By how much of me their reproach contains
.
''Among the many that mine eyes have seen
,
Not one whose flame my heart so much as warm'd
,
Or my affection put to the smallest teen
,
Or any of my leisures ever charm'd:
Harm have I done to them
,
but ne'er was harm'd
;
Kept hearts in liveries
,
but mine own was free
,
And reign'd
,
commanding in his monarchy
.
''Look here
,
what tributes wounded fancies sent me
,
Of paled pearls and rubies red as blood
;
Figuring that they their passions likewise lent me
Of grief and blushes
,
aptly understood
In bloodless white and the encrimson'd mood
;
Effects of terror and dear modesty
,
Encamp'd in hearts
,
but fighting outwardly
.
''And
,
lo
,
behold these talents of their hair
,
With twisted metal amorously impleach'd
,
I have received from many a several fair
,
Their kind acceptance weepingly beseech'd
,
With the annexions of fair gems enrich'd
,
And deep-brain'd sonnets that did amplify
Each stone's dear nature
,
worth
,
and quality
.
''The diamond
,
--why
,
'twas beautiful and hard
,
Whereto his invised properties did tend
;
The deep-green emerald
,
in whose fresh regard
Weak sights their sickly radiance do amend
;
The heaven-hued sapphire and the opal blend
With objects manifold: each several stone
,
With wit well blazon'd
,
smiled or made some moan
.
''Lo
,
all these trophies of affections hot
,
Of pensived and subdued desires the tender
,
Nature hath charged me that I hoard them not
,
But yield them up where I myself must render
,
That is
,
to you
,
my origin and ender
;
For these
,
of force
,
must your oblations be
,
Since I their altar
,
you enpatron me
.
''O
,
then
,
advance of yours that phraseless hand
,
Whose white weighs down the airy scale of praise
;
Take all these similes to your own command
,
Hallow'd with sighs that burning lungs did raise
;
What me your minister
,
for you obeys
,
Works under you
;
and to your audit comes
Their distract parcels in combined sums
.
''Lo
,
this device was sent me from a nun
,
Or sister sanctified
,
of holiest note
;
Which late her noble suit in court did shun
,
Whose rarest havings made the blossoms dote
;
For she was sought by spirits of richest coat
,
But kept cold distance
,
and did thence remove
,
To spend her living in eternal love
.
''But
,
O my sweet
,
what labour is't to leave
The thing we have not
,
mastering what not strives
,
Playing the place which did no form receive
,
Playing patient sports in unconstrained gyves
?
She that her fame so to herself contrives
,
The scars of battle 'scapeth by the flight
,
And makes her absence valiant
,
not her might
.
''O
,
pardon me
,
in that my boast is true:
The accident which brought me to her eye
Upon the moment did her force subdue
,
And now she would the caged cloister fly:
Religious love put out Religion's eye:
Not to be tempted
,
would she be immured
,
And now
,
to tempt
,
all liberty procured
.
''How mighty then you are
,
O
,
hear me tell
!
The broken bosoms that to me belong
Have emptied all their fountains in my well
,
And mine I pour your ocean all among:
I strong o'er them
,
and you o'er me being strong
,
Must for your victory us all congest
,
As compound love to physic your cold breast
.
''My parts had power to charm a sacred nun
,
Who
,
disciplined
,
ay
,
dieted in grace
,
Believed her eyes when they to assail begun
,
All vows and consecrations giving place:
O most potential love
!
vow
,
bond
,
nor space
,
In thee hath neither sting
,
knot
,
nor confine
,
For thou art all
,
and all things else are thine
.
''When thou impressest
,
what are precepts worth
Of stale example
?
When thou wilt inflame
,
How coldly those impediments stand forth
Of wealth
,
of filial fear
,
law
,
kindred
,
fame
!
Love's arms are peace
,
'gainst rule
,
'gainst sense
,
'gainst shame
,
And sweetens
,
in the suffering pangs it bears
,
The aloes of all forces
,
shocks
,
and fears
.
''Now all these hearts that do on mine depend
,
Feeling it break
,
with bleeding groans they pine
;
And supplicant their sighs to you extend
,
To leave the battery that you make 'gainst mine
,
Lending soft audience to my sweet design
,
And credent soul to that strong-bonded oath
That shall prefer and undertake my troth
.
'
'This said
,
his watery eyes he did dismount
,
Whose sights till then were levell'd on my face
;
Each cheek a river running from a fount
With brinish current downward flow'd apace:
O
,
how the channel to the stream gave grace
!
Who glazed with crystal gate the glowing roses
That flame through water which their hue encloses
.
'O father
,
what a hell of witchcraft lies
In the small orb of one particular tear
!
But with the inundation of the eyes
What rocky heart to water will not wear
?
What breast so cold that is not warmed here
?
O cleft effect
!
cold modesty
,
hot wrath
,
Both fire from hence and chill extincture hath
.
'For
,
lo
,
his passion
,
but an art of craft
,
Even there resolved my reason into tears
;
There my white stole of chastity I daff'd
,
Shook off my sober guards and civil fears
;
Appear to him
,
as he to me appears
,
All melting
;
though our drops this difference bore
,
His poison'd me
,
and mine did him restore
.
'In him a plenitude of subtle matter
,
Applied to cautels
,
all strange forms receives
,
Of burning blushes
,
or of weeping water
,
Or swooning paleness
;
and he takes and leaves
,
In either's aptness
,
as it best deceives
,
To blush at speeches rank to weep at woes
,
Or to turn white and swoon at tragic shows
.
'That not a heart which in his level came
Could 'scape the hail of his all-hurting aim
,
Showing fair nature is both kind and tame
;
And
,
veil'd in them
,
did win whom he would maim:
Against the thing he sought he would exclaim
;
When he most burn'd in heart-wish'd luxury
,
He preach'd pure maid
,
and praised cold chastity
.
'Thus merely with the garment of a Grace
The naked and concealed fiend he cover'd
;
That th' unexperient gave the tempter place
,
Which like a cherubin above them hover'd
.
Who
,
young and simple
,
would not be so lover'd
?
Ay me
!
I fell
;
and yet do question make
What I should do again for such a sake
.
'O
,
that infected moisture of his eye
,
O
,
that false fire which in his cheek so glow'd
,
O
,
that forced thunder from his heart did fly
,
O
,
that sad breath his spongy lungs bestow'd
,
O
,
all that borrow'd motion seeming owed
,
Would yet again betray the fore-betray'd
,
And new pervert a reconciled maid
!
'
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