LOVER LOVED

Comes of rudeness or lewdness that mock This losel by like hath lost his wit How so? And me think this woodcock is turned on thy side Contrary to curtsy and reason to use Thus rudely to rail or any word be tried In proof of thy part, whereby I do refuse To answer the same, thou canst not excuse Thy folly in this, but if thou Wilt say ought Assay to say better for this sing is nought you by my soul and will take it in good worth what folk above those live more pleasantly Being no lover what man may you be Then I beseech the this one thing tell me How many women thinkest thou does love the Then as appeareth by those words rehearsed Thou art neither lover nor beloved Sins that is true I merueyll what can ensue For proof of thy part in that thou madest avant Of both our estates to prove thine most Pleasant Being no lover who may Quiet be Marry I what pacyens my friend you are to hasty If you will patiently mark what I shall say your self shall perceive me in Quiet always Than we twain shall talk both in vain I see Except our mater awarded may be By judgement of some indifferent herer Now by the good God I grant to agree For be thou assewred it scorneth me That thou shouldst compare in pleasure to be Like me, and surely I promise the One way or other I will find redress The old sing sayeth he that seeketh shall find which after long seeking true have I found But for such a finding my self to bind To such a seeking as I was now bound I would rather seek to less twenty punde How be it I have sought so far to my pain That at the last I have found and brought twain Nay they come a foot which thou might see here, but for this great mist How? I grant for my part by faith of my body why where the devil is this whoreson nody Nay merueyll you masters thereat no whyt For as far as this point may stretch in verdyt I am clearly of this men opinion Then be we come to a demurrer in law And in mine but yet Or that we herein our judgement publish I shall desire you that we twain may fynysh As far in our mater toward judgement As you have done in yours to the intent That we our parts brought together thither May come to judgement from them to gythes Shall I Begin who shall win the end, the end at end shall try For my part whereof now thus Begin I I am as I said a beloved lover And he no lover nor beloved neither In which two cases he makes his avant Of both our parts to prove his most pleasant But be you assured by ought I yet see In his estate no manner pleasure can be That second pleasure now secondly invented To compare with pleasure by contentashyon Is a very second ymagynashyon Pleasure without contentation can not be But contentation without pleasure we see In things innumerable every day Of all which mark these which I shall now lay Put case that I for pleasure of some friend Or some thing which I longed to see at end would be content to ride three score mile this night And never would bait nor never alyght I might be right well content to do this And yet in this doing no pleasure there is Moreover you by Patient sufferance May be contented with any mischance The lose of your child friend or any thing That in this world to you can be longing wherein you contented never so well yet is your contentation pleasure no dell Sir be you contented even as you tell yet your contentation can neither excel Nor be compared equal to mine estate For touching contentation I am in rate As hyely contented to love as you see As you to forbear love can wish to be Had I no more to say in this argument But that I am as well as you content yet hath my part now good approbation To match with yours even by contentation But contentation is not all the thing That I for my love have in recompencyng Above contentation pleasures feeling Have I so many, that no wight living Can by any wit or tongue the same report Oh the pleasant pleasures in our resort After my being from her any whither what pleasures have we in coming to together Eke tap on the ground toward me with her foot Does bath in delight my very heart rote Every twynke of her alluring eye Reuyueth my spirits even thorowoutly Eke word of her mouth not a preparatyue But the right medicine of preseruatyue we be so jocund and joyfully joined Her love for my love so currently coined That all pleasures yerthly the truth to declare Are pleasures not able with ours to compare This mouth in manner receiveth no food Love is the feeding that does this body good And this head dyspyseth all these eyes winking Longer then love does keep this heart thinking To dream on my sweet heart, love is my feader Love is my lord, and love is my leader Of all mine affairs in thought, word, and deed, Love is the Christ's cross that must be my speed Love good what ill in love canst thou make apere No further then you be enfect with folly For in all these words no word can I espy Such as for your part any proof avoucheth Sir where you said and think you have said well That my joy by love shall bring death in sequel In that by the same in manner I disdain Food and sleep, this proverb answereth you plain Look not on the meat, but look on the man Now look you on me and say what you can yes in like rate as a post is pleased which as by no mean it can be diseased By displeasure present so is it true That no pleasure present in it can ensue Pleasures or displeasures feeling sensibly A post you know well can not feel possibly And as a post in this case I take you Concerning the effect of pleasure in hand now For any feeling you in pleasu e endure More then you say you feel in displeasure My present displeasures I know none such No. Farewell dawcock He is gone Nay this night he will no more dyssease you Gyve judgement hardly even when it please you which done sith he is gone my self Straight shall Ryghtously between you gyve judgement final But lord what a face this foal hath set here Till shame defaced his folly so clear That shame hath shamefully in sight of you all with shame driven him hens to his shameful fallen wherein all though I nought gain by Winning That ought may augment my pleasure in loving yet shall I win thereby a pleasure to see That you all shall see the mater pass with me what though the profit may lightly be lodyn It grieveth a man to be over trodyn Nay when I saw that his Winning must grow By pain pretending in my part to show Then wist I well the nody must cum To do as he did or stand and play mum No man / no woman / no child in this place But I durst for judgement trust in this case All doubt of my pain by his proof by any mean His running away hath now scrapped out clean werfore gyve judgement and I shall return In place hereby where my dear heart does soiurne And after salutation between us had Such as is meet to make lovers hearts glade I shall to rejoice her in merry tidings Declare the hold rabble of this fools losings water and fire well thanked be God it is out now clean How cam it there what house? Then break heart alas why live I this day My dear heart is dystroyd life and wealth away That word I harden but yet I see her not Ʋ unto that house where I did see her last I will seek to see her and if she be passed So that to apere there I can not make her Then will I burn after and overtake her The proof of my saying at my First enter That wretch bringeth now in place in that I laid Dyssimblyng men mind by appearance to be Thing meanuenyent, which thing as I said Is proved now true, how was I dysmeyd By his false facing the death of my darling whom I thank God is in health and eyleth nothing My loving nay all the cause was your lying what did my love till your lie was moved If fortune God save her did bring her to it The fault were in fortune and in love no whyt well sir at extremyte I can prove The fault in fortune as much as in love Nay First a few words, sy though I confess That love bringeth some payue and your case paynses By mean of your contented yetnes Yet rha to ail pleasures that I poss Are as far above the case that you profess As is my pain in your Ʋ nder the pleasures of Thus wade how you will one way or ot er If you win one way you shall lefe another But if you mi nde for end to be brief Ieine with me herein for indifferent prefe A tree you know well is a thing that hath life And such a thing as never feseth pain or strife But ever quiet and always contented And as there can no way be muented To bring a tree displeasure by feeling pain So no fe nge pleasure in it can remain A h S is a thing that hath life also And he y feeling felith both wealth and woe By dryuinge or drawing all day in the m er Many painful journeys hath be in hire But after all those he hath always at night These pleasures following to his great delight First fair washed at a river or a weir And straight br ught to a abel warm and fair Dry rubbed and chafed from head to he e And toryd till he be flyke as and ele Then he is litt worser in manner no And heigh as much as well in his belie Then provender hath he oh S pese benes or breed which feeding infelinge as pleasant to his heed As to a covetous man to behold Of his owue westminster hall full of gold After which feeding he flepeth in quiet rest Dewring such time as his meat may degest All this considered a Horse or a tree If you must those the tove which would you be Then would I be a Horse and no tree by saint George Now are these issues couched so nigh That both sides I trust shall take end shortly I grant Though nature force man styf y to incline To his own part in each particular thing! yet reason would man when man shall determine Other men's parts by indifferent awarding Indifferent to be in all his reasoning wherefore in this part cut out of affec ion So that indifferency be direc ion When mater at full is indifferently laid As you in this judgement have laid this now what reason the time by me should be deleyd you have spoken my thought wherefore to you In peising your pains my consciens does allow A joust counterpa see and thus your pains be A judged by us twain one pain in degree well sins I think you both without corruption I shall move no mater of interruption well mine estate right well contents me True and contention may be in Like case All though no health yet help and great relief In both your pains for you having such grace To be contented in sufferance of grief Shall by contentation avoid much mischief Such as the contra y shall surely bring you Pain to pain as painful as your pain is now Thus not we four but all the world beside Knowledge them self or other in joy or pain Hath need of contentation for a guide Having joy or pain content let us remain In joy or pain of other flee we disdain Be we content wealth or woo, and eke for other Rejoice in the tone and pity the tother By come experience who can deny Inpossibylyte for man to show His inward intent, but by signs outwardly As writing, speech, or countenau ̄ ce, whereby does grow Outward perceiving inwardly to know Of every secrecy in men breast wrought From man unto man the effect of eke thought These things well weighed in many things show need In our outward signs to show us so that plain According to our thoughts / words and signs proceed For in outward signs where men are seen to fain what credence in man to man may remain Men inward mind with outward signs to fable May soon be more come than continued ̄ mendable. Much are we lovers then to be commended For love his appearance dyssembleth in no wise But as the heart feeleth like signs always pretended who fain in appearance are loves mortal enemies As in dyspayr of speed who that can mirth devise Or having grant of grace can show them as mourners Such be no lovers but even very scorners. The true lovers heart that can not obtain Is so tormented that all the body Is evermore so compelde to complain That sooner may the sufferer hide the fury Of a fervent fever, then of that malady By any power human he possible may Hide the lest pain of a thousand I dare say. And he who in loving hath lot to such luck. That love for love of his love be found Shall be of power even as easily to pluck The moan in a momet with a finger to ground As of his joy to enclose the rebound But that the reflection thereof from his heart To his beholders shall shine in eke part Thus be a lover in joy or in care All though will and wit his estate would hide yet shall his semblance as a dyale declare How the clock goes which may be well applied In abrygement of circumstau ̄ ce for a guyed To lead you in few words by my byhauour To know me in grace of my ladies favour. For being a lover as I am in deed And thereto disposed thus pleasantly Is a plain appearance of my such speed As I in love cowld wish and undoubtedly My love is requited so lovingly That in every thing that may delight my mind. My wit can not wish it so well as I find which thing at full considered, I suppose That all the whole world must agree in one voice I being beloved as I now disclose Of one being chief of all the hold choice Must have incomparable cause to rejoice For the highest pleasure that man may obtain Is to be a lover beloved again The first case is yours and the next is for me In case like a tree I may liken you For as a tree hath life within feeling whereby it felith pleasing not displeasing And can not be but contented quietly Even the Like case is yours now presently And as the Horse feeleth pain and not the tree Like wise I have pain and no pain have you And as a Horse above a tree feeleth pleasure So feel I pleasure above you in rate sure And as the tre felith neither and the Horse both Even so pleasure and pain between us twain goes Sins these two cases so indifferently fallen That your self can judge neither for perciall For indifferent end I think this way best Of all our reasoning to debar the rest And in these two cases this one question To be the issue that we shall join on Forsooth it is so I promising plain They twain between us twain giving iudgeme ̄ to plain we twain between them twain should judge right again well sir till such time as death approve it This partly of your tale may sleep every whyt And where you by absent displeasure would Match with my present pleasure you seem more bold Then wise, for those twain be far dyfferent sewer I had lever be a tree then a Horse I.