CARNAL CONCUPISCENCE

Infidelite? Oh Infidelity, mine own infidelity, I am glad to see thee merry now for a surety, I marvel what thou dost in this place alone, I thought that out of Jury thou hadst been gone. For my partly in his I have kindled such a fire, That she begins to burn in carnal desire. Within my self you know that I contain a sort, Which by name before you here I will report. My name is carnal concupiscence or desire, Which all the pleasures of the flesh does require. First the flesh to nourish with drink and meat Without abstinence Like a beast always to eat, To quasse and drink when there is no necessity, Joying in excess, bealy cheer, and ebriety. I contain in my self all kind of lechery, Fornication, whoredom, and wicked adultery, Rape, incest, sacrilege, softness, and bestiality, Blindness of mind, with every such quality, Inconstancy, headiness, and inconsideration, After the hearts poison and filthy communication, So then to the hate of God I do them bring, Causing a love in himself inordinately to Spring. These and such Like I contain in my person. Thus you see that carnal lust goes never alone. Alas good gentlewoman, she blushes Like coals. No for there she is Like many times to be beat. Tush mistress Marry, be you not in subjection, Better it is to be at your own election. What thing in this world excels liberty? Neither gold nor treasure for a surety. Take you now one, and then and other hardly, Such as for the time will to you lovingly apply. If you can wisely occupy this pretty gear, I will warrant you to get and hundred pound a year. Never woman that could play a harlots partly, Was either humble, or yet meek in heart. They are always scraping, clawing, & gathering, To maintain their lives in wickedness and sin. I pray you behold how she trimmeth her gear? She would have all well about her every where. I dare say thus much, that he is your friend, For he loves you with his whole heart and mind. He hath been diligent about your cause, As it had be his own, and would never pause, Till he had performed his desired request. If she be not content with that native colour, A painter will set on one of more honour. We three will go before some thing to prepare, That shall be to your commodity and welfare. With the one eye overmuch thou usest to wink, That thou meanest some fraud thereby they will think He that looketh with one eye, & winketh with and other, I would not trust (say they) if he were my brother. Tush from our purpose always we do digress, Let every one of us his qualities express. Besides Goldsmiths water, there is other gear, Very good also to colour again the hear, Yea, if you were not beautiful of your visage, A painter could make you to apere w to a lusty courage And though you were as aged as any creature, A Painter on your face would set such and ornature, That you should seem young and very fair, And Like one whose beauty does never despair. As touching that, I will be to you such a mean, As shall teach you always to convey the matter clean With fine meats & pure wines do your body nourish That will cause you in all pleasure to flourish: And when one for your mind you can espy, Use a smiling countenance and a wanton eye. Of many ladies I am certain you have hard, Which the people as goddesses did regard: And why this was the cause truly in my judgement, They had all pleasure here at their continued ̄ maundement, So that they lived in joy wealth and prosperity, Using all pleasures for their own commodity. Spoken Like a worthy sweet girl by the mass, I warrant all this gear will well come to pass. Mark the garments of other in any wise, And be you sure of one of the newest guise. Your hair me think is as yellow as any gold, Upon your face laid about have it I would. Sometime on your forehead the breadth of and hand, Sometime let your attire upon your crown stand, That all your hair for the most partly may be in sighed, To many a man a fair hair is a great delight. Both damsels and wives use many such feats, I know them that will lay out their fair teats, Purposely men to allure unto their love, For it is a thing that does the heart greatly move. At such sights of women I have known men in deed That with talking & beholding their noses will bled Through great courage moved by such goodly sights Labouring the matter further with all their mights. Truly M. Marry if you love me, there is nothing lost, Love they say, ieopardeth all, and spares for no cost. Voluptas autem est sola quae nos vocet and see, Et aliciat suapte naturam, Pleasure say one man, of his own nature, Allecteth to him every human creature: Now what person soever does pleasure hate, As a beast is to be abjected both early and late. Let me have a word or two in your ear. How say you by that, Like you not that pretty gear? And new kinds of pastime I will invent, With the which I trust you shall be content.