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If you are not located in the United States, you’ll -have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using -this ebook. - - - -Title: A Lover’s Complaint - -Author: William Shakespeare - -Release Date: November, 1998 [Etext #1543] -Last Updated: February 24, 2019 - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A LOVER’S COMPLAINT *** - - - -This etext was prepared by the PG Shakespeare Team, -a team of about twenty Project Gutenberg volunteers. - -</pre> +<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 1543 ***</div> <h1 style="margin-top: 4em">A LOVER’S COMPLAINT</h1> <p> -<br/> +<br> </p> <h3>by William Shakespeare</h3> <p> -<br/> +<br> </p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p> -<br/> +<br> </p> <p> -From off a hill whose concave womb reworded<br/> -A plaintful story from a sist’ring vale,<br/> -My spirits t’attend this double voice accorded,<br/> -And down I laid to list the sad-tun’d tale;<br/> -Ere long espied a fickle maid full pale,<br/> -Tearing of papers, breaking rings a-twain,<br/> -Storming her world with sorrow’s wind and rain.<br/> +From off a hill whose concave womb reworded<br> +A plaintful story from a sist’ring vale,<br> +My spirits t’attend this double voice accorded,<br> +And down I laid to list the sad-tun’d tale;<br> +Ere long espied a fickle maid full pale,<br> +Tearing of papers, breaking rings a-twain,<br> +Storming her world with sorrow’s wind and rain.<br> </p> <p> -Upon her head a platted hive of straw,<br/> -Which fortified her visage from the sun,<br/> -Whereon the thought might think sometime it saw<br/> -The carcass of a beauty spent and done;<br/> -Time had not scythed all that youth begun,<br/> -Nor youth all quit, but spite of heaven’s fell rage<br/> -Some beauty peeped through lattice of sear’d age.<br/> +Upon her head a platted hive of straw,<br> +Which fortified her visage from the sun,<br> +Whereon the thought might think sometime it saw<br> +The carcass of a beauty spent and done;<br> +Time had not scythed all that youth begun,<br> +Nor youth all quit, but spite of heaven’s fell rage<br> +Some beauty peeped through lattice of sear’d age.<br> </p> <p> -Oft did she heave her napkin to her eyne,<br/> -Which on it had conceited characters,<br/> -Laund’ring the silken figures in the brine<br/> -That seasoned woe had pelleted in tears,<br/> -And often reading what contents it bears;<br/> -As often shrieking undistinguish’d woe,<br/> -In clamours of all size, both high and low.<br/> +Oft did she heave her napkin to her eyne,<br> +Which on it had conceited characters,<br> +Laund’ring the silken figures in the brine<br> +That seasoned woe had pelleted in tears,<br> +And often reading what contents it bears;<br> +As often shrieking undistinguish’d woe,<br> +In clamours of all size, both high and low.<br> </p> <p> -Sometimes her levell’d eyes their carriage ride,<br/> -As they did batt’ry to the spheres intend;<br/> -Sometime diverted their poor balls are tied<br/> -To th’orbed earth; sometimes they do extend<br/> -Their view right on; anon their gazes lend<br/> -To every place at once, and nowhere fix’d,<br/> -The mind and sight distractedly commix’d.<br/> +Sometimes her levell’d eyes their carriage ride,<br> +As they did batt’ry to the spheres intend;<br> +Sometime diverted their poor balls are tied<br> +To th’orbed earth; sometimes they do extend<br> +Their view right on; anon their gazes lend<br> +To every place at once, and nowhere fix’d,<br> +The mind and sight distractedly commix’d.<br> </p> <p> -Her hair, nor loose nor tied in formal plat,<br/> -Proclaim’d in her a careless hand of pride;<br/> -For some untuck’d descended her sheav’d hat,<br/> -Hanging her pale and pined cheek beside;<br/> -Some in her threaden fillet still did bide,<br/> -And, true to bondage, would not break from thence,<br/> -Though slackly braided in loose negligence.<br/> +Her hair, nor loose nor tied in formal plat,<br> +Proclaim’d in her a careless hand of pride;<br> +For some untuck’d descended her sheav’d hat,<br> +Hanging her pale and pined cheek beside;<br> +Some in her threaden fillet still did bide,<br> +And, true to bondage, would not break from thence,<br> +Though slackly braided in loose negligence.<br> </p> <p> -A thousand favours from a maund she drew,<br/> -Of amber, crystal, and of beaded jet,<br/> -Which one by one she in a river threw,<br/> -Upon whose weeping margent she was set,<br/> -Like usury applying wet to wet,<br/> -Or monarchs’ hands, that lets not bounty fall<br/> -Where want cries ‘some,’ but where excess begs ‘all’.<br/> +A thousand favours from a maund she drew,<br> +Of amber, crystal, and of beaded jet,<br> +Which one by one she in a river threw,<br> +Upon whose weeping margent she was set,<br> +Like usury applying wet to wet,<br> +Or monarchs’ hands, that lets not bounty fall<br> +Where want cries ‘some,’ but where excess begs ‘all’.<br> </p> <p> -Of folded schedules had she many a one,<br/> -Which she perus’d, sigh’d, tore and gave the flood;<br/> -Crack’d many a ring of posied gold and bone,<br/> -Bidding them find their sepulchres in mud;<br/> -Found yet mo letters sadly penn’d in blood,<br/> -With sleided silk, feat and affectedly<br/> -Enswath’d, and seal’d to curious secrecy.<br/> +Of folded schedules had she many a one,<br> +Which she perus’d, sigh’d, tore and gave the flood;<br> +Crack’d many a ring of posied gold and bone,<br> +Bidding them find their sepulchres in mud;<br> +Found yet mo letters sadly penn’d in blood,<br> +With sleided silk, feat and affectedly<br> +Enswath’d, and seal’d to curious secrecy.<br> </p> <p> -These often bath’d she in her fluxive eyes,<br/> -And often kiss’d, and often gave to tear;<br/> -Cried, ‘O false blood, thou register of lies,<br/> -What unapproved witness dost thou bear!<br/> -Ink would have seem’d more black and damned here!’<br/> -This said, in top of rage the lines she rents,<br/> -Big discontent so breaking their contents.<br/> +These often bath’d she in her fluxive eyes,<br> +And often kiss’d, and often gave to tear;<br> +Cried, ‘O false blood, thou register of lies,<br> +What unapproved witness dost thou bear!<br> +Ink would have seem’d more black and damned here!’<br> +This said, in top of rage the lines she rents,<br> +Big discontent so breaking their contents.<br> </p> <p> -A reverend man that grazed his cattle nigh,<br/> -Sometime a blusterer, that the ruffle knew<br/> -Of court, of city, and had let go by<br/> -The swiftest hours observed as they flew,<br/> -Towards this afflicted fancy fastly drew;<br/> -And, privileg’d by age, desires to know<br/> -In brief the grounds and motives of her woe.<br/> +A reverend man that grazed his cattle nigh,<br> +Sometime a blusterer, that the ruffle knew<br> +Of court, of city, and had let go by<br> +The swiftest hours observed as they flew,<br> +Towards this afflicted fancy fastly drew;<br> +And, privileg’d by age, desires to know<br> +In brief the grounds and motives of her woe.<br> </p> <p> -So slides he down upon his grained bat,<br/> -And comely distant sits he by her side,<br/> -When he again desires her, being sat,<br/> -Her grievance with his hearing to divide:<br/> -If that from him there may be aught applied<br/> -Which may her suffering ecstasy assuage,<br/> -’Tis promised in the charity of age.<br/> +So slides he down upon his grained bat,<br> +And comely distant sits he by her side,<br> +When he again desires her, being sat,<br> +Her grievance with his hearing to divide:<br> +If that from him there may be aught applied<br> +Which may her suffering ecstasy assuage,<br> +’Tis promised in the charity of age.<br> </p> <p> -‘Father,’ she says, ‘though in me you behold<br/> -The injury of many a blasting hour,<br/> -Let it not tell your judgement I am old,<br/> -Not age, but sorrow, over me hath power.<br/> -I might as yet have been a spreading flower,<br/> -Fresh to myself, if I had self-applied<br/> -Love to myself, and to no love beside.<br/> +‘Father,’ she says, ‘though in me you behold<br> +The injury of many a blasting hour,<br> +Let it not tell your judgement I am old,<br> +Not age, but sorrow, over me hath power.<br> +I might as yet have been a spreading flower,<br> +Fresh to myself, if I had self-applied<br> +Love to myself, and to no love beside.<br> </p> <p> -‘But woe is me! Too early I attended<br/> -A youthful suit; it was to gain my grace;<br/> -O one by nature’s outwards so commended,<br/> -That maiden’s eyes stuck over all his face,<br/> -Love lack’d a dwelling and made him her place;<br/> -And when in his fair parts she did abide,<br/> -She was new lodg’d and newly deified.<br/> +‘But woe is me! Too early I attended<br> +A youthful suit; it was to gain my grace;<br> +O one by nature’s outwards so commended,<br> +That maiden’s eyes stuck over all his face,<br> +Love lack’d a dwelling and made him her place;<br> +And when in his fair parts she did abide,<br> +She was new lodg’d and newly deified.<br> </p> <p> -‘His browny locks did hang in crooked curls,<br/> -And every light occasion of the wind<br/> -Upon his lips their silken parcels hurls,<br/> -What’s sweet to do, to do will aptly find,<br/> -Each eye that saw him did enchant the mind:<br/> -For on his visage was in little drawn,<br/> -What largeness thinks in paradise was sawn.<br/> +‘His browny locks did hang in crooked curls,<br> +And every light occasion of the wind<br> +Upon his lips their silken parcels hurls,<br> +What’s sweet to do, to do will aptly find,<br> +Each eye that saw him did enchant the mind:<br> +For on his visage was in little drawn,<br> +What largeness thinks in paradise was sawn.<br> </p> <p> -‘Small show of man was yet upon his chin;<br/> -His phoenix down began but to appear,<br/> -Like unshorn velvet, on that termless skin,<br/> -Whose bare out-bragg’d the web it seemed to wear.<br/> -Yet show’d his visage by that cost more dear,<br/> -And nice affections wavering stood in doubt<br/> -If best were as it was, or best without.<br/> +‘Small show of man was yet upon his chin;<br> +His phoenix down began but to appear,<br> +Like unshorn velvet, on that termless skin,<br> +Whose bare out-bragg’d the web it seemed to wear.<br> +Yet show’d his visage by that cost more dear,<br> +And nice affections wavering stood in doubt<br> +If best were as it was, or best without.<br> </p> <p> -‘His qualities were beauteous as his form,<br/> -For maiden-tongued he was, and thereof free;<br/> -Yet if men mov’d him, was he such a storm<br/> -As oft ’twixt May and April is to see,<br/> -When winds breathe sweet, unruly though they be.<br/> -His rudeness so with his authoriz’d youth<br/> -Did livery falseness in a pride of truth.<br/> +‘His qualities were beauteous as his form,<br> +For maiden-tongued he was, and thereof free;<br> +Yet if men mov’d him, was he such a storm<br> +As oft ’twixt May and April is to see,<br> +When winds breathe sweet, unruly though they be.<br> +His rudeness so with his authoriz’d youth<br> +Did livery falseness in a pride of truth.<br> </p> <p> -‘Well could he ride, and often men would say<br/> -That horse his mettle from his rider takes,<br/> -Proud of subjection, noble by the sway,<br/> -What rounds, what bounds, what course, what stop he makes!<br/> -And controversy hence a question takes,<br/> -Whether the horse by him became his deed,<br/> -Or he his manage by th’ well-doing steed.<br/> +‘Well could he ride, and often men would say<br> +That horse his mettle from his rider takes,<br> +Proud of subjection, noble by the sway,<br> +What rounds, what bounds, what course, what stop he makes!<br> +And controversy hence a question takes,<br> +Whether the horse by him became his deed,<br> +Or he his manage by th’ well-doing steed.<br> </p> <p> -‘But quickly on this side the verdict went,<br/> -His real habitude gave life and grace<br/> -To appertainings and to ornament,<br/> -Accomplish’d in himself, not in his case;<br/> -All aids, themselves made fairer by their place,<br/> -Came for additions; yet their purpos’d trim<br/> -Piec’d not his grace, but were all grac’d by him.<br/> +‘But quickly on this side the verdict went,<br> +His real habitude gave life and grace<br> +To appertainings and to ornament,<br> +Accomplish’d in himself, not in his case;<br> +All aids, themselves made fairer by their place,<br> +Came for additions; yet their purpos’d trim<br> +Piec’d not his grace, but were all grac’d by him.<br> </p> <p> -‘So on the tip of his subduing tongue<br/> -All kind of arguments and question deep,<br/> -All replication prompt, and reason strong,<br/> -For his advantage still did wake and sleep,<br/> -To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep:<br/> -He had the dialect and different skill,<br/> -Catching all passions in his craft of will.<br/> +‘So on the tip of his subduing tongue<br> +All kind of arguments and question deep,<br> +All replication prompt, and reason strong,<br> +For his advantage still did wake and sleep,<br> +To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep:<br> +He had the dialect and different skill,<br> +Catching all passions in his craft of will.<br> </p> <p> -‘That he did in the general bosom reign<br/> -Of young, of old, and sexes both enchanted,<br/> -To dwell with him in thoughts, or to remain<br/> -In personal duty, following where he haunted,<br/> -Consent’s bewitch’d, ere he desire, have granted,<br/> -And dialogued for him what he would say,<br/> -Ask’d their own wills, and made their wills obey.<br/> +‘That he did in the general bosom reign<br> +Of young, of old, and sexes both enchanted,<br> +To dwell with him in thoughts, or to remain<br> +In personal duty, following where he haunted,<br> +Consent’s bewitch’d, ere he desire, have granted,<br> +And dialogued for him what he would say,<br> +Ask’d their own wills, and made their wills obey.<br> </p> <p> -‘Many there were that did his picture get<br/> -To serve their eyes, and in it put their mind,<br/> -Like fools that in th’ imagination set<br/> -The goodly objects which abroad they find<br/> -Of lands and mansions, theirs in thought assign’d,<br/> -And labouring in moe pleasures to bestow them,<br/> -Than the true gouty landlord which doth owe them.<br/> +‘Many there were that did his picture get<br> +To serve their eyes, and in it put their mind,<br> +Like fools that in th’ imagination set<br> +The goodly objects which abroad they find<br> +Of lands and mansions, theirs in thought assign’d,<br> +And labouring in moe pleasures to bestow them,<br> +Than the true gouty landlord which doth owe them.<br> </p> <p> -‘So many have, that never touch’d his hand,<br/> -Sweetly suppos’d them mistress of his heart.<br/> -My woeful self that did in freedom stand,<br/> -And was my own fee-simple (not in part)<br/> -What with his art in youth, and youth in art,<br/> -Threw my affections in his charmed power,<br/> -Reserv’d the stalk and gave him all my flower.<br/> +‘So many have, that never touch’d his hand,<br> +Sweetly suppos’d them mistress of his heart.<br> +My woeful self that did in freedom stand,<br> +And was my own fee-simple (not in part)<br> +What with his art in youth, and youth in art,<br> +Threw my affections in his charmed power,<br> +Reserv’d the stalk and gave him all my flower.<br> </p> <p> -‘Yet did I not, as some my equals did,<br/> -Demand of him, nor being desired yielded,<br/> -Finding myself in honour so forbid,<br/> -With safest distance I mine honour shielded.<br/> -Experience for me many bulwarks builded<br/> -Of proofs new-bleeding, which remain’d the foil<br/> -Of this false jewel, and his amorous spoil.<br/> +‘Yet did I not, as some my equals did,<br> +Demand of him, nor being desired yielded,<br> +Finding myself in honour so forbid,<br> +With safest distance I mine honour shielded.<br> +Experience for me many bulwarks builded<br> +Of proofs new-bleeding, which remain’d the foil<br> +Of this false jewel, and his amorous spoil.<br> </p> <p> -‘But ah! Who ever shunn’d by precedent<br/> -The destin’d ill she must herself assay,<br/> -Or force’d examples ’gainst her own content,<br/> -To put the by-pass’d perils in her way?<br/> -Counsel may stop a while what will not stay:<br/> -For when we rage, advice is often seen<br/> -By blunting us to make our wills more keen.<br/> +‘But ah! Who ever shunn’d by precedent<br> +The destin’d ill she must herself assay,<br> +Or force’d examples ’gainst her own content,<br> +To put the by-pass’d perils in her way?<br> +Counsel may stop a while what will not stay:<br> +For when we rage, advice is often seen<br> +By blunting us to make our wills more keen.<br> </p> <p> -‘Nor gives it satisfaction to our blood,<br/> -That we must curb it upon others’ proof,<br/> -To be forbode the sweets that seems so good,<br/> -For fear of harms that preach in our behoof.<br/> -O appetite, from judgement stand aloof!<br/> -The one a palate hath that needs will taste,<br/> -Though reason weep and cry, “It is thy last.”<br/> +‘Nor gives it satisfaction to our blood,<br> +That we must curb it upon others’ proof,<br> +To be forbode the sweets that seems so good,<br> +For fear of harms that preach in our behoof.<br> +O appetite, from judgement stand aloof!<br> +The one a palate hath that needs will taste,<br> +Though reason weep and cry, “It is thy last.”<br> </p> <p> -‘For further I could say, “This man’s untrue”,<br/> -And knew the patterns of his foul beguiling;<br/> -Heard where his plants in others’ orchards grew,<br/> -Saw how deceits were gilded in his smiling;<br/> -Knew vows were ever brokers to defiling;<br/> -Thought characters and words merely but art,<br/> -And bastards of his foul adulterate heart.<br/> +‘For further I could say, “This man’s untrue”,<br> +And knew the patterns of his foul beguiling;<br> +Heard where his plants in others’ orchards grew,<br> +Saw how deceits were gilded in his smiling;<br> +Knew vows were ever brokers to defiling;<br> +Thought characters and words merely but art,<br> +And bastards of his foul adulterate heart.<br> </p> <p> -‘And long upon these terms I held my city,<br/> -Till thus he ’gan besiege me: “Gentle maid,<br/> -Have of my suffering youth some feeling pity,<br/> -And be not of my holy vows afraid:<br/> -That’s to ye sworn, to none was ever said,<br/> -For feasts of love I have been call’d unto,<br/> -Till now did ne’er invite, nor never woo.<br/> +‘And long upon these terms I held my city,<br> +Till thus he ’gan besiege me: “Gentle maid,<br> +Have of my suffering youth some feeling pity,<br> +And be not of my holy vows afraid:<br> +That’s to ye sworn, to none was ever said,<br> +For feasts of love I have been call’d unto,<br> +Till now did ne’er invite, nor never woo.<br> </p> <p> -‘“All my offences that abroad you see<br/> -Are errors of the blood, none of the mind:<br/> -Love made them not; with acture they may be,<br/> -Where neither party is nor true nor kind,<br/> -They sought their shame that so their shame did find,<br/> -And so much less of shame in me remains,<br/> -By how much of me their reproach contains.<br/> +‘“All my offences that abroad you see<br> +Are errors of the blood, none of the mind:<br> +Love made them not; with acture they may be,<br> +Where neither party is nor true nor kind,<br> +They sought their shame that so their shame did find,<br> +And so much less of shame in me remains,<br> +By how much of me their reproach contains.<br> </p> <p> -‘“Among the many that mine eyes have seen,<br/> -Not one whose flame my heart so much as warmed,<br/> -Or my affection put to th’ smallest teen,<br/> -Or any of my leisures ever charmed:<br/> -Harm have I done to them, but ne’er was harmed;<br/> -Kept hearts in liveries, but mine own was free,<br/> -And reign’d commanding in his monarchy.<br/> +‘“Among the many that mine eyes have seen,<br> +Not one whose flame my heart so much as warmed,<br> +Or my affection put to th’ smallest teen,<br> +Or any of my leisures ever charmed:<br> +Harm have I done to them, but ne’er was harmed;<br> +Kept hearts in liveries, but mine own was free,<br> +And reign’d commanding in his monarchy.<br> </p> <p> -‘“Look here what tributes wounded fancies sent me,<br/> -Of pallid pearls and rubies red as blood,<br/> -Figuring that they their passions likewise lent me<br/> -Of grief and blushes, aptly understood<br/> -In bloodless white and the encrimson’d mood;<br/> -Effects of terror and dear modesty,<br/> -Encamp’d in hearts, but fighting outwardly.<br/> +‘“Look here what tributes wounded fancies sent me,<br> +Of pallid pearls and rubies red as blood,<br> +Figuring that they their passions likewise lent me<br> +Of grief and blushes, aptly understood<br> +In bloodless white and the encrimson’d mood;<br> +Effects of terror and dear modesty,<br> +Encamp’d in hearts, but fighting outwardly.<br> </p> <p> -‘“And, lo! behold these talents of their hair,<br/> -With twisted metal amorously empleach’d,<br/> -I have receiv’d from many a several fair,<br/> -Their kind acceptance weepingly beseech’d,<br/> -With th’ annexions of fair gems enrich’d,<br/> -And deep-brain’d sonnets that did amplify<br/> -Each stone’s dear nature, worth and quality.<br/> +‘“And, lo! behold these talents of their hair,<br> +With twisted metal amorously empleach’d,<br> +I have receiv’d from many a several fair,<br> +Their kind acceptance weepingly beseech’d,<br> +With th’ annexions of fair gems enrich’d,<br> +And deep-brain’d sonnets that did amplify<br> +Each stone’s dear nature, worth and quality.<br> </p> <p> -‘“The diamond, why ’twas beautiful and hard,<br/> -Whereto his invis’d properties did tend,<br/> -The deep green emerald, in whose fresh regard<br/> -Weak sights their sickly radiance do amend;<br/> -The heaven-hued sapphire and the opal blend<br/> -With objects manifold; each several stone,<br/> -With wit well blazon’d smil’d, or made some moan.<br/> +‘“The diamond, why ’twas beautiful and hard,<br> +Whereto his invis’d properties did tend,<br> +The deep green emerald, in whose fresh regard<br> +Weak sights their sickly radiance do amend;<br> +The heaven-hued sapphire and the opal blend<br> +With objects manifold; each several stone,<br> +With wit well blazon’d smil’d, or made some moan.<br> </p> <p> -‘“Lo, all these trophies of affections hot,<br/> -Of pensiv’d and subdued desires the tender,<br/> -Nature hath charg’d me that I hoard them not,<br/> -But yield them up where I myself must render,<br/> -That is, to you, my origin and ender:<br/> -For these of force must your oblations be,<br/> -Since I their altar, you empatron me.<br/> +‘“Lo, all these trophies of affections hot,<br> +Of pensiv’d and subdued desires the tender,<br> +Nature hath charg’d me that I hoard them not,<br> +But yield them up where I myself must render,<br> +That is, to you, my origin and ender:<br> +For these of force must your oblations be,<br> +Since I their altar, you empatron me.<br> </p> <p> -‘“O then advance of yours that phraseless hand,<br/> -Whose white weighs down the airy scale of praise;<br/> -Take all these similes to your own command,<br/> -Hallowed with sighs that burning lungs did raise:<br/> -What me, your minister for you, obeys,<br/> -Works under you; and to your audit comes<br/> -Their distract parcels in combined sums.<br/> +‘“O then advance of yours that phraseless hand,<br> +Whose white weighs down the airy scale of praise;<br> +Take all these similes to your own command,<br> +Hallowed with sighs that burning lungs did raise:<br> +What me, your minister for you, obeys,<br> +Works under you; and to your audit comes<br> +Their distract parcels in combined sums.<br> </p> <p> -‘“Lo, this device was sent me from a nun,<br/> -Or sister sanctified of holiest note,<br/> -Which late her noble suit in court did shun,<br/> -Whose rarest havings made the blossoms dote;<br/> -For she was sought by spirits of richest coat,<br/> -But kept cold distance, and did thence remove<br/> -To spend her living in eternal love.<br/> +‘“Lo, this device was sent me from a nun,<br> +Or sister sanctified of holiest note,<br> +Which late her noble suit in court did shun,<br> +Whose rarest havings made the blossoms dote;<br> +For she was sought by spirits of richest coat,<br> +But kept cold distance, and did thence remove<br> +To spend her living in eternal love.<br> </p> <p> -‘“But O, my sweet, what labour is’t to leave<br/> -The thing we have not, mast’ring what not strives,<br/> -Planing the place which did no form receive,<br/> -Playing patient sports in unconstrained gyves,<br/> -She that her fame so to herself contrives,<br/> -The scars of battle ’scapeth by the flight,<br/> -And makes her absence valiant, not her might.<br/> +‘“But O, my sweet, what labour is’t to leave<br> +The thing we have not, mast’ring what not strives,<br> +Planing the place which did no form receive,<br> +Playing patient sports in unconstrained gyves,<br> +She that her fame so to herself contrives,<br> +The scars of battle ’scapeth by the flight,<br> +And makes her absence valiant, not her might.<br> </p> <p> -‘“O pardon me, in that my boast is true,<br/> -The accident which brought me to her eye,<br/> -Upon the moment did her force subdue,<br/> -And now she would the caged cloister fly:<br/> -Religious love put out religion’s eye:<br/> -Not to be tempted would she be immur’d,<br/> -And now to tempt all, liberty procur’d.<br/> +‘“O pardon me, in that my boast is true,<br> +The accident which brought me to her eye,<br> +Upon the moment did her force subdue,<br> +And now she would the caged cloister fly:<br> +Religious love put out religion’s eye:<br> +Not to be tempted would she be immur’d,<br> +And now to tempt all, liberty procur’d.<br> </p> <p> -‘“How mighty then you are, O hear me tell!<br/> -The broken bosoms that to me belong<br/> -Have emptied all their fountains in my well,<br/> -And mine I pour your ocean all among:<br/> -I strong o’er them, and you o’er me being strong,<br/> -Must for your victory us all congest,<br/> -As compound love to physic your cold breast.<br/> +‘“How mighty then you are, O hear me tell!<br> +The broken bosoms that to me belong<br> +Have emptied all their fountains in my well,<br> +And mine I pour your ocean all among:<br> +I strong o’er them, and you o’er me being strong,<br> +Must for your victory us all congest,<br> +As compound love to physic your cold breast.<br> </p> <p> -‘“My parts had pow’r to charm a sacred nun,<br/> -Who, disciplin’d and dieted in grace,<br/> -Believ’d her eyes when they t’assail begun,<br/> -All vows and consecrations giving place.<br/> -O most potential love! Vow, bond, nor space,<br/> -In thee hath neither sting, knot, nor confine,<br/> -For thou art all and all things else are thine.<br/> +‘“My parts had pow’r to charm a sacred nun,<br> +Who, disciplin’d and dieted in grace,<br> +Believ’d her eyes when they t’assail begun,<br> +All vows and consecrations giving place.<br> +O most potential love! Vow, bond, nor space,<br> +In thee hath neither sting, knot, nor confine,<br> +For thou art all and all things else are thine.<br> </p> <p> -‘“When thou impressest, what are precepts worth<br/> -Of stale example? When thou wilt inflame,<br/> -How coldly those impediments stand forth,<br/> -Of wealth, of filial fear, law, kindred, fame!<br/> -Love’s arms are peace, ’gainst rule, ’gainst sense, ’gainst shame,<br/> -And sweetens, in the suff’ring pangs it bears,<br/> -The aloes of all forces, shocks and fears.<br/> +‘“When thou impressest, what are precepts worth<br> +Of stale example? When thou wilt inflame,<br> +How coldly those impediments stand forth,<br> +Of wealth, of filial fear, law, kindred, fame!<br> +Love’s arms are peace, ’gainst rule, ’gainst sense, ’gainst shame,<br> +And sweetens, in the suff’ring pangs it bears,<br> +The aloes of all forces, shocks and fears.<br> </p> <p> -‘“Now all these hearts that do on mine depend,<br/> -Feeling it break, with bleeding groans they pine,<br/> -And supplicant their sighs to your extend,<br/> -To leave the batt’ry that you make ’gainst mine,<br/> -Lending soft audience to my sweet design,<br/> -And credent soul to that strong-bonded oath,<br/> -That shall prefer and undertake my troth.”<br/> +‘“Now all these hearts that do on mine depend,<br> +Feeling it break, with bleeding groans they pine,<br> +And supplicant their sighs to your extend,<br> +To leave the batt’ry that you make ’gainst mine,<br> +Lending soft audience to my sweet design,<br> +And credent soul to that strong-bonded oath,<br> +That shall prefer and undertake my troth.”<br> </p> <p> -‘This said, his wat’ry eyes he did dismount,<br/> -Whose sights till then were levell’d on my face;<br/> -Each cheek a river running from a fount<br/> -With brinish current downward flowed apace.<br/> -O how the channel to the stream gave grace!<br/> -Who, glaz’d with crystal gate the glowing roses<br/> -That flame through water which their hue encloses.<br/> +‘This said, his wat’ry eyes he did dismount,<br> +Whose sights till then were levell’d on my face;<br> +Each cheek a river running from a fount<br> +With brinish current downward flowed apace.<br> +O how the channel to the stream gave grace!<br> +Who, glaz’d with crystal gate the glowing roses<br> +That flame through water which their hue encloses.<br> </p> <p> -‘O father, what a hell of witchcraft lies<br/> -In the small orb of one particular tear!<br/> -But with the inundation of the eyes<br/> -What rocky heart to water will not wear?<br/> -What breast so cold that is not warmed here?<br/> -O cleft effect! Cold modesty, hot wrath,<br/> -Both fire from hence and chill extincture hath.<br/> +‘O father, what a hell of witchcraft lies<br> +In the small orb of one particular tear!<br> +But with the inundation of the eyes<br> +What rocky heart to water will not wear?<br> +What breast so cold that is not warmed here?<br> +O cleft effect! Cold modesty, hot wrath,<br> +Both fire from hence and chill extincture hath.<br> </p> <p> -‘For lo, his passion, but an art of craft,<br/> -Even there resolv’d my reason into tears;<br/> -There my white stole of chastity I daff’d,<br/> -Shook off my sober guards, and civil fears,<br/> -Appear to him as he to me appears,<br/> -All melting, though our drops this diff’rence bore:<br/> -His poison’d me, and mine did him restore.<br/> +‘For lo, his passion, but an art of craft,<br> +Even there resolv’d my reason into tears;<br> +There my white stole of chastity I daff’d,<br> +Shook off my sober guards, and civil fears,<br> +Appear to him as he to me appears,<br> +All melting, though our drops this diff’rence bore:<br> +His poison’d me, and mine did him restore.<br> </p> <p> -‘In him a plenitude of subtle matter,<br/> -Applied to cautels, all strange forms receives,<br/> -Of burning blushes, or of weeping water,<br/> -Or swooning paleness; and he takes and leaves,<br/> -In either’s aptness, as it best deceives,<br/> -To blush at speeches rank, to weep at woes,<br/> -Or to turn white and swoon at tragic shows.<br/> +‘In him a plenitude of subtle matter,<br> +Applied to cautels, all strange forms receives,<br> +Of burning blushes, or of weeping water,<br> +Or swooning paleness; and he takes and leaves,<br> +In either’s aptness, as it best deceives,<br> +To blush at speeches rank, to weep at woes,<br> +Or to turn white and swoon at tragic shows.<br> </p> <p> -‘That not a heart which in his level came<br/> -Could ’scape the hail of his all-hurting aim,<br/> -Showing fair nature is both kind and tame;<br/> -And veil’d in them, did win whom he would maim.<br/> -Against the thing he sought he would exclaim;<br/> -When he most burned in heart-wish’d luxury,<br/> -He preach’d pure maid, and prais’d cold chastity.<br/> +‘That not a heart which in his level came<br> +Could ’scape the hail of his all-hurting aim,<br> +Showing fair nature is both kind and tame;<br> +And veil’d in them, did win whom he would maim.<br> +Against the thing he sought he would exclaim;<br> +When he most burned in heart-wish’d luxury,<br> +He preach’d pure maid, and prais’d cold chastity.<br> </p> <p> -‘Thus merely with the garment of a grace,<br/> -The naked and concealed fiend he cover’d,<br/> -That th’unexperient gave the tempter place,<br/> -Which, like a cherubin, above them hover’d.<br/> -Who, young and simple, would not be so lover’d?<br/> -Ay me! I fell, and yet do question make<br/> -What I should do again for such a sake.<br/> +‘Thus merely with the garment of a grace,<br> +The naked and concealed fiend he cover’d,<br> +That th’unexperient gave the tempter place,<br> +Which, like a cherubin, above them hover’d.<br> +Who, young and simple, would not be so lover’d?<br> +Ay me! I fell, and yet do question make<br> +What I should do again for such a sake.<br> </p> <p> -‘O, that infected moisture of his eye,<br/> -O, that false fire which in his cheek so glow’d!<br/> -O, that forc’d thunder from his heart did fly,<br/> -O, that sad breath his spongy lungs bestow’d,<br/> -O, all that borrowed motion, seeming owed,<br/> -Would yet again betray the fore-betrayed,<br/> -And new pervert a reconciled maid.’<br/> +‘O, that infected moisture of his eye,<br> +O, that false fire which in his cheek so glow’d!<br> +O, that forc’d thunder from his heart did fly,<br> +O, that sad breath his spongy lungs bestow’d,<br> +O, all that borrowed motion, seeming owed,<br> +Would yet again betray the fore-betrayed,<br> +And new pervert a reconciled maid.’<br> </p> - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Lover’s Complaint, -by William Shakespeare - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A LOVER’S COMPLAINT *** - -***** This file should be named 1543-h.htm or 1543-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/4/1543/ - -This etext was prepared by the PG Shakespeare Team, -a team of about twenty Project Gutenberg volunteers. - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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