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deedes shew thy small affection. As Firmius did aske her how she knew it, she an∣swered him. If thy loue Firmius extends so farre as thou saiest, thou wouldest come to see me oftner; it greeues me in the end, of the fauor that not long since I did thee. Firmius not suffring Diana to passe any farther, being as it were halfe madde with himselfe, for these cruell words, in that she greeued and repented her of her fauour done him, tooke his Rebecke and sung this Sonnet.
They great, this small, those giue I, this I borrow.
Firmius had scarce done, when Faustus asked Diana, how she knew that his loue to her was so small. Who answered. In that, hoping to enioy thee inflamed in my loue, thou complainest no purpose of a few teares thou hast spilt for my sake, as if these were not as incident and requisite for loue, as pasture for sheepe, and oyle for the lamp. To which wordes Faustus taking vp his Rebecke did thus answere her.
Is spent, is quench’t, and drowned in excesse.
As Faustus had thus made an ende, Firmius said (for all that I coulde not then heare, he tolde me afterwards) we are well content Diana, that thou delightest thy selfe with our sorrowes (since thou wilt take no pleasure in any of our other things) if thy sweete voice in lieu of that, might sound in our desired eares with some hap∣pie song. Diana excused herselfe, requesting them to pardon her, saying she coulde
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