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Berardus song pleased Diana well, but perceiuing by it, that he made her hart har∣der then the stones, she would for her credite haue answered him againe, & therfore said. It is a merrie iest (by my life) to call her hard that is modest, and cruell, that is carefull to keepe her honestie, I woulde to God, Shepherd, my soule were no more sorrowfull, then my hart is hard. But O greefe! Fortune hath made me captiue to so iealous a husband, that I was many times constrained to shew discurtesie to gentle Shepherds in these hils, dales, and fieldes, bicause I woulde not haue added more sorrow to my troublesome life with him. And yet for all this, the knot of marriage and reason oblige me to seeke out my rude and ill conditioned husband, although I looke not for any thing else at his hands, then sorrow, care, greefe, and manie more annoies in his frowarde companie. Taurisus taking nowe occasion at Dianas com∣plaints, which she made of her vnfortunate marriage, began to play on his Bagge∣pipe, and to sing, speaking as it were to loue, and descanting vpon this common song that saieth.
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