The most Lamentable Tragedie
10871046If I doe wake
some Plannet
strike me downe,
10881047That I may
slumber an eternall
sleepe.
10891048Speake gentle Neece, what
sterne vngentle hands,
10901049 +
Hath lopt, and hewde, and made thy body bare,
10911050Of her two branches tho
se
sweet Ornaments,
10921051Who
se cyrcling
shadowes, Kings haue
sought to
sleepe
(in, 10931052And might not gaine
so great a happines
10941053As halfe thy loue:
Why do
st not
speake to me?
10951054Alas, a crim
son Riuer of warme blood,
10961055Like to a bubling Fountaine
stirde with winde,
10971056Doth ri
se and fall betweene thy Ro
sed lips,
10981057Comming and going with thy honie breath.
10991058But
sure
some
Tereus hath de
flowred thee,
11001059And le
st thou
should
st dete
ct them cut thy tongue.
11011060Ah now thou turn
st awaie thy face for
shame,
11021061And notwith
standing all this lo
sse of blood,
11031062As from a Conduit with their i
ssuing
spouts,
11041063Yet doe thy cheekes looke red as
Titans face,
11051064Blu
shing to be encountred with
a Clowde.
11061065Shall I
speake for thee,
shall I
say tis
so.
11071066Oh that I knew thy hart, and knew the bea
st,
11081067That I might raile at him to ea
se my minde.
11091068Sorrow concealed like an Ouen
stoppt,
11101069Doth burne the hart to cinders where it is.
11111070Faire
Philomela, why
she but lo
st her tongue,
11121071And in a tedious
sampler
sowed her minde.
11131072But louely Neece, that meane is cut from thee,
11141073A craftier
Tereus, Co
sen ha
st thou met,
11151074And he hath cut tho
se prettie
fingers o
ff,
11161075That could haue better
sowed than
Philomel.
11171076Oh had the mon
ster
seene tho
se Lillie hands,
11181077Tremble like a
spen leaues vpon a Lute,
11191078And make the
silken
strings delight to ki
sse them,
11201079He would not then haue tucht them for his life.
11211080Or had he heard the heauenly Harmonie,
Which