That in the heart that harbour'd freedom late,
Endless despair long thraldom hath impress'd.
Another 1 so cold in frozen ice is found,

Whose chilling venom of repugnant kind,
The fervent heat doth quench of Cupid's wound,
And with the spot of change infects the mind;
Whereof my dear hath tasted to my pain :
My service thus is grown into disdain.

DESCRIPTION AND PRAISE OF HIS LOVE
GERALDINE.

FROM Tuscane came my lady's worthy race;
Fair Florence was sometime her 2 ancient seat.
The western isle, whose pleasant shore doth face
Wild Camber's cliffs, did give her lively heat.
Foster'd she was with milk of Irish breast:

Her sire an earl; her dame of prince's blood.
From tender years, in Britain doth she rest,
With kinges child, where she tasteth costly food.
Hunsdon did first present her to mine eyen:

Bright is her hue, and Geraldine she hight.
Hampton me taught to wish her first for mine;

And Windsor, alas! doth chase me from her sight. Her beauty of kind; her virtues from above; Happy is he that can obtain her love!

THE FRAILTY AND HURTFULNESS OF
BEAUTY.4

BRITTLE beauty, that Nature made so frail,

Whereof the gift is small, and short is the season;

1. Another :' another well.-2 Her:' their.-3 Kind: ' nature. It is somewhat uncertain whether this poem be Surrey's; it is also ascribed to Lord Vaux.

Flowering to-day, to-morrow apt to fail;
Tickle1 treasure, abhorr'd of reason;
Dangerous to deal with, vain, of none avail;

Costly in keeping; past, not worth two peason;2
Slipper in sliding, as is an eel's tail;

Hard to attain, once gotten, not geason ;3
Jewel of jeopardy, that peril doth assail;
False and untrue, enticed oft to treason;
Enemy to youth, that most may I bewail;
Ah! bitter sweet, infecting as the poison,
Thou farest as fruit that with the frost is taken ;
To-day ready ripe, to-morrow all-to shaken.

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A COMPLAINT BY NIGHT OF THE LOVER NOT BELOVED.

ALAS, So all things now do hold their peace!
Heaven and earth disturbed in no thing;
The beasts, the air, the birds their song do cease,
The nightès car the stars about doth bring;
Calm is the sea; the waves work less and less :
So am not I, whom love, alas! doth wring,
Bringing before my face the great increase
Of my desires, whereat I weep and sing,
In joy and woe, as in a doubtful case.

For my sweet thoughts sometime do pleasure bring; But by and by, the cause of my disease

Gives me a pang that inwardly doth sting,

When that I think what grief it is again

To live and lack the thing should rid my pain.

''Tickle :' unstable, ticklish.—2 Peason:' peas.3 Geason: ' rare, or uncommon.- All-to:' altogether.

HOW EACH THING, SAVE THE LOVER, IN
SPRING REVIVETH TO PLEASURE.

WHEN Windsor walls sustain'd my wearied arm,
My hand my chin, to ease my restless head;
The pleasant plot revested green with warm,
The blossom'd boughs, with lusty Ver yspread,
The flowered meads, the wedded birds so late,
Mine eyes discover; and to my mind resort
The jolly woes, the hateless, short debate,

The rakehell1 life, that 'longs to love's disport :
Wherewith, alas! the heavy charge of care

Heap'd in my breast breaks forth, against my will,
In smoky sighs that overcast the air,

My vapour'd eyes such dreary tears distil,
The tender spring which quicken where they fall,
And I half bend to throw me down withal.

A VOW TO LOVE FAITHFULLY, HOWSOEVER
HE BE REWARDED.

SET me whereas the sun doth parch the green,
Or where his beams do not dissolve the ice;
In temperate heat, where he is felt and seen;
In presence prest2 of people mad or wise;
Set me in high, or yet in low degree ;

In longest night, or in the shortest day;
In clearest sky, or where clouds thickest be;
In lusty youth, or when my hairs are gray:
Set me in heaven, in earth, or else in hell,
In hill, or dale, or in the foaming flood;

''Rakehell:' or rakel, careless. Prest:' usually means ready; here it may, perhaps, mean a press or crowd of people.

Thrall, or at large, alive whereso I dwell,
Sick, or in health, in evil fame or good,
Hers will I be; and only with this thought
Content myself, although my chance be nought.

COMPLAINT,

THAT HIS LADY, AFTER SHE KNEW HIS LOVE, KEPT HER FACE ALWAYS HIDDEN FROM HIM.

I NEVER saw my lady lay apart

Her cornet1 black, in cold nor yet in heat, Sith first she knew my grief was grown so great; Which other fancies driveth from my heart, That to myself I do the thought reserve,

The which unwares did wound my woful breast:
But on her face mine eyes might never rest.
Yet since she knew I did her love and serve,
Her golden tresses clad alway with black,

Her smiling looks that hid thus evermore,
And that restrains which I desire so sore:
So doth this cornet govern me, alack!
In summer, sun; in winter's breath, a frost,
Whereby the light of her fair looks I lost.

REQUEST TO HIS LOVE TO JOIN BOUNTY
WITH BEAUTY.

THE golden gift that Nature did thee give,
To fasten friends, and feed them at thy will,
With form and favour, taught me to believe
How thou art made to show her greatest skill;

Cornet: a head-dress, so called from its horns or points to which the veil was attached.

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Whose hidden virtues are not so unknown,
But lively dooms 1 might gather at the first
Where beauty so her perfect seed hath sown
Of other graces follow needs there must.
Now certes, Garret,2 since all this is true,

That from above thy gifts are thus elect,
Do not deface them then with fancies new;

Nor change of minds, let not the mind infect: But mercy 3 him, thy friend that doth thee serve, Who seeks alway thine honour to preserve.

PRISONED IN WINDSOR, HE RECOUNTETH HIS PLEASURE THERE PASSED.

So cruel prison how could betide, alas,

As proud Windsor, where I in lust and joy, With a king's son,4 my childish 5 years did pass, In greater feast than Priam's sons of Troy : Where each sweet place returns a taste full sour: The large green courts, where we were wont to hove,6 With eyes cast up into the maidens' tower,

And easy sighs, such as folk draw in love; The stately seats, the ladies bright of hue;

The dances short, long tales of great delight; With words and looks that tigers could but rue;

Where each of us did plead the other's right; The palm-play, where, despoiled for the game,

With dazed eyes oft we by gleams of love

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''Lively dooms :' persons of quick judgment.—2 Garret :' the Fitz-Geralds usually wrote their name Garret, and it seems that Geraldine was so called when in attendance on the Princess Mary, Mercy' used as a verb.King's son: the young Duke of Richmond, natural son to Henry VIII., see 'Life. Childish:' in the sense of childe.'- Hove:' hover.-' 'Rue:' melt, cause to pity.-' Palm-play :' fives, or tennis.