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The Nymphes.
THe authours of subiections
Fortune and Loue, and of most peeuish fashions,
Aboue the moone affections
Doe place, and hard reiections,
And in the same extremest paines and passions.
The Shepherdes.
Lessemay he vaunt and boast
For ioy, whom Loue did neuer yet molest,
Then he, that loueth most,
And fauours euer lost,
Since they that suffer more are euer best.
The Nymphes.
If Loues extremes releene you,
And did not gainsay reason, as we view them,
Perhaps we would beleeue you:
But seeing how they greeue you,
Happy are we that can so well eschew them.
The Shepherdes.
The hardest things the stoute
And valiant persons euer take in hand:
And that of greatest doubt
Braue courage brings about,
For t’is no honour small things to withstande.
The Nymphes.
The Louer well doth see,
To fight it out, it is not Loues intent
With magnanimitie:
In torments he must be
Of those, that suffring them are most content.
The Shepherdes.
If any ioy we sought
By any ill of Loue which we obtaine,
It cannot be the thought
Vnto the passion brought:
But he’s more happy that endures more paine.
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