VI A. TWO MAIDS WOOING A MAN Autolycus-Dorcas—Mopsa 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? 4. Neither. -Then whither goest? say, whither? VII RED AND WHITE F She be made of white and red, For blushing cheeks by faults are bred 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 That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn : 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-crownéd 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; That every eye which in this forest looks Shall see thy virtue witness'd every where. X A SUPPLICATION WEET Mistress,-what your name is else, I SWEET 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. Against my soul's pure truth why labour you 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! ΧΙ EROS AND ANTEROS ART thou, god, to shepherd turn'd, That a maiden's heart hath burn'd? Why, thy godhead laid apart, Warr'st thou with a woman's heart? That could do no vengeance to me. Hath power to raise such love in mine, And by him seal up thy mind; Whether that thy youth and kind Of me and all that I can make ; |