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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=519200" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Faire Amarillis</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Amarillis was full fayre:<br>The goodlyest mayde was she<br>From the east unto the west<br>That heaven's eye could se.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>To Diana at her birthe<br>Her parents did her geve,<br>All untouchte a mayden's lyfe<br>Durynge her dayes to lyue:</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Whose beheste she constant kepte<br>And whollye was enclynde<br>To be free to get great prayse<br>And win eche worthye mynde.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>As there was good cause enoughe<br>So was she honored most.<br>They that had her seene abroade<br>At home would make their boaste.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Twoe ther were that her behelde<br>Who woulde have done so ever,<br>Happye theye (ye happye thryse)<br>If they had done so never</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Coridon and Caramell:<br>Who longe with deere accorde<br>Ledd their lyues, and neyther wisht<br>Of other to be lorde:</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Good and sure their freendshipp was<br>Tyll Amarillis fyne<br>Had the powre, perhapps the will<br>The bande for to untwyne:</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>All the goods that eche possest<br>Of bodye, goodes, or mynde<br>Were employde to other's use<br>As eche by profe did fynde:</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>They had no cause to enuye ought<br>The auncyent worlde's prayse<br>Of Damo and of Pytheas<br>And others in those dayes:</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>But the boye, that blynded god<br>In great despights complaynde:<br>That one earthe alone they were<br>That his darte quyte disdaynde:</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Whereupon his strongest bowe<br>And sharpest arrowes hente<br>And in Amarillis eyes<br>He lyghtely pighte his tente:</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Where he lay, to watche both tyme<br>And place for his avayll:<br>For the wightes that wiste not yet<br>What foe should them assayll:</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>One of his two shafts was dipte<br>In bitter sauce as gaulle,<br>The other in a pleasant wyne<br>And poyson myxte withall</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>As the smacke of dyuers sauce,<br>So dyuerslye they wroughte:<br>By despayre the one to deathe<br>By vague hope the other broughte.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>With the first was Coridon<br>Throughe piercèd to the herte;<br>Caramell wh' in his brest<br>Felte of the other's smarte.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Butt with gould both headed were<br>And both wth lyke desyre,<br>Faygne they would wth'in therre brest<br>Hyde cloase their kyndled fyre:</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>But wthout it must appeere<br>That burnte so hot wthin:<br>Harde it is the flame to hyde<br>That it no issue win.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>And in tyme strange lookes began<br>That spronge of Jelosye;<br>Full of care, eche laye in wayghte<br>For his felowe to descrye:</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>In the end all freendly lookes<br>Betweene these freendes decayde;<br>Bothe were bente to please theselues<br>Theire freende's case nothynge wayde.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Amarillis' love was soughte<br>With all they could deuyse,<br>Yea wth all the power of man<br>And prayer to the skyes:</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>All she sawe, and herde theire moane<br>As Aspis dothe the charme;<br>By and by she bayed them both<br>As guyltye of theyre harme.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Now to the one she would give eare<br>Now put the other of,<br>Allurynge him by courteseye,<br>And tauntynge him by scoff.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>But that trust by tryalls paste<br>Made them theire doome suspende;<br>And indeed she usèd there<br>Where passione did offend.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>He had neede of store of tyme<br>That would his pen prepare,<br>To sett forth theire agonyes<br>Theire dredd hope and feare.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Butt in vayne they spente theire tyme,<br>Theire labor all was lost:<br>She was farthest from theire need<br>Where they foreweenèd most.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Coridon waxte pall and leane<br>His younger heares torned hore;<br>Feates of armes, the horse and hauke<br>He left and used no more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>He had founde that Amarill<br>Soughte glorye more than love;<br>That she forcèd not his harmes<br>Her bewtye's power to prove.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Yet he could not leave to love<br>Butt yeeldynge to despayre,<br>Rente his hearte, his corpes fell downe<br>His goaste fledd to the ayre:</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Caramell, thoughte women kynde,<br>Was apte to change and bowe;<br>And beleeued, to please him selfe<br>What fancye did allowe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Butt beleefe ne makes the cause<br>Nor weauynge, workes the webb;<br>In the tyde his trauayll came<br>He tornèd in the ebb:</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Att the last his vayne hope, him<br>No longer coulde sustayne;<br>In his longynge he consumde,<br>Lyfe coulde not him attayne.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Amaryllis herde of this<br>And pyttye moude wth all,<br>Muche to rue so harde a happ<br>One such faythe should befall.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>To Diana strayghte she hyghes<br>Whome wayted one she founde,<br>With a trayne of all the dames<br>Whose chaste names Fame did sounde:</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Unto her in humble wyse<br>She sayde she came to sue<br>For that these to lyuyng thynges<br>Myghte be transformde a newe;</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>In her armes the goddess mylde<br>Her darlynge softe did strayne:<br>What is that that thou (qth she)<br>Of me mayste not obtayne?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>There withall Sr Caramel<br>A yellow flowre became:<br>Sweete of sente and muche esteemde<br>And Harte's ease caulde by name.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Amarillis pluckte the flowre<br>And ware it in her heade:<br>Sometymes she layde it in her lapp,<br>Sometymes upone her bedd.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Caramell, O happye flowre!<br>O most unhappy man!<br>In thy lyfe thou hadst thy deathe,<br>In thy deathe thy lyfe began.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Coridon turnde to an owlle<br>Fledd to the wildernes:<br>Never flockes, butt leades his lyfe<br>In solytarynes:</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Nor his eyes can yet behould<br>The deare lyghte of the sun:<br>Butt aloofe he stealles his flyghte<br>And in the darke dothe run.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Amaryllis to the woode<br>Att sometyme will repayre,<br>And delyghte to here the laye<br>And tune of his despayre.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Well I wot what here is ment<br>And thoughe a talle yt seeme,<br>Shadowes haue their substance bye<br>And so of this, esteeme.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Ye that chaunce this for to heer<br>And do not prayse their speede<br>Give them thankes, for you by them<br>Are warnde to take heede.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Finis.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sir+Edward+Dyer">Sir Edward Dyer</a><div class=q>
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The goodlyest mayde was she
From the east unto the west
That heaven's eye could se.


To Diana at her birthe
Her parents did her geve,
All untouchte a mayden's lyfe
Durynge her dayes to lyue:


Whose beheste she constant ..."></div>
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