"Songes and Sonettes written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other"

Tottel, Richard . "Songes and Sonettes written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other"
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When youth had led me

Descripcion of the restlesse state of a louer.

1.3.1: When youth had led me halfe the race,
1.3.2: That Cupides scourge me causde to ronne,
1.3.3: I loked back to mete the place,
1.3.4: From whence my wery course begonne.
1.3.5: And then I sawe how my desire
1.3.6: Misguiding me had led the way:
1.3.7: Mine eyen to gredy of their hire,
1.3.8: Had made me lose a better pray.
1.3.9: For when in sighes I spent the day,
1.3.10: And could not cloke my griefe with game,
1.3.11: The boiling smoke did still bewray
1.3.12: The persaunt heate of secrete flame.
1.3.13: And when salt teares doe bayne my brest,
1.3.14: Where loue his pleasant traines hath sowen
1.3.15: Her bewty hath the fruites opprest,
1.3.16: Ere that the buds were spronge and blowen.
1.3.17: And when myne eyen dyd styll pursue
1.3.18: The flying chace that was their quest,
1.3.19: Their gredy lokes dyd oft renewe.
1.3.20: the hidden wound within my brest.
1.3.21: When euery loke these chekes might staine,
1.3.22: From deadly pale to glowing red:
1.3.23: By outwarde signes appered plaine,
1.3.24: The woe wherin my hart was fed.
1.3.25: But all to late loue learneth me,
1.3.26: To painte all kinde of colours new,
1.3.27: To blinde their eyes that els shoulde see,
1.3.28: My specled chekes with Cupides hewe.
1.3.29: And no we
Note: nowe the couert brest I claime,
1.3.30: That worshipt Cupide secretely:
1.3.31: And norished his sacred flame,
1.3.32: From whence no blasing sparkes doe flye.