VI TWO MAIDS WOOING A MAN Autolycus-Dorcas-Mopsa A. Get you hence, for I must go Where it fits not you to know! D. Whither? M. O whither? D. Whither? M. It becomes thy oath full well Thou to me thy secrets tell. D. Me, too, let me go thither. M. Or thou goest to the grange or mill. D. If to either, thou dost ill. A. Neither. D. What, neither? A. Neither. D. Thou hast sworn my Love to be. -Then whither goest? say, whither? VII RED AND WHITE If She be made of white and red, Her faults will ne'er be known; For blushing cheeks by faults are bred And fears by pale white shown: Then if she fear, or be to blame, By this you shall not know,—— For still her cheeks possess the same Which native she doth owe! VIII LOVE'S DESPAIR Take, O, take those lips away But my kisses bring again ; Seals of love, but seal'd in vain ; -Seal'd in vain. IX THE LOVER'S OFFERING Hang there, my verse, in witness of my love: And thou, thrice-crowned Queen of night, survey With thy chaste eye, from thy pale sphere above, Thy huntress' name that my full life doth sway. O Rosalind! these trees shall be my books, And in their barks my thoughts I'll character; Shall see thy virtue witness'd every where. X A SUPPLICATION Sweet Mistress,-what your name is else, I know not, Nor by what wonder you do hit of mine, Less in your knowledge and your grace you show not Than our earth's wonder, more than earth, divine. Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak; Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The folded meaning of your words' deceit. soul's pure truth why labour you Against my To make it wander in an unknown field? Are you a god? would you create me new? Transform me then, and to your power I'll yield ! XI EROS AND ANTEROS Art thou, god, to shepherd turn'd, Warr'st thou with a woman's heart? Of me and all that I can make; |