"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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Avisyng the bright beames

Of douteous loue.

2.15.1: Avisyng the bright beames of those fayre eyes,
2.15.2: Where he abides that mine oft moistes and washeth:
2.15.3: The weried mynd streight from the hart departeth,
2.15.4: To rest within hys worldly Paradise,

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2.15.5: And bitter findes the swete, vnder this gyse.
2.15.6: What webbes there he hath wrought, well he perceaueth
2.15.7: Wherby then with him self on loue he playneth,
2.15.8: That spurs wyth fire, and brydleth eke with yse.
2.15.9: In such extremity thus is he brought:
2.15.10: Frosen now cold, and now he standes in flame:
2.15.11: Twixt wo, and welth: betwixt earnest, and game:
2.15.12: With seldome glad, and many a diuers thought:
2.15.13: In sore repentance of hys hardinesse.
2.15.14: Of such a roote lo cometh frute frutelesse.