The Honest Wooer,
His minde expressing in plaine and few termes,
By which to his Mistresse his love he confirmes.
To the tune of, Lulling beyond her.
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FAirest Mistresse, cease your moane,
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spoile not your eyes with weeping,
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For certainely if one be gone,
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you may have another sweeting:
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I will not complement with oathes,
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nor speake you faire to prove you,
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But save your eyes to mend your cloths
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for it is I that love you.
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I will not boast of substance great,
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wherewith I can endow you,
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Nor what apparell nor what meat,
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Im able to allow you;
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You know tis time that all things tries
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let then my affection move you,
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And weepe no more but save your eyes,
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for it is I that love you.
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If I should say yhave golden haires,
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I should both lye and flatter,
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Why should I say thine eyes are stars,
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when there is no such matter?
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Every like is not the same,
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yet none I prize above you,
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To sigh so sore you are much to blame,
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for it is I that love you
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With courtly words I cannot court,
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like one whose tongue is filed,
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By subtill speakers in that sort,
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poore women are oft beguiled:
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I speake no more but what I meane,
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then doe as it doth behove you,
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And doe not waste your teares in vaine,
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for it is I that love you.
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You may, I know, have choice of men,
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that many wayes excell me,
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But yet in love I passe all them,
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my conscience this doth tell me,
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Then let no riches buy my prise,
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nor flattering words remove you,
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To sigh and sob you are very unwise,
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for it is I that love you.
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I am thy constant Pyramus,
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be thou my constant Thysbe,
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That such a match is made by us,
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let this a sealing kisse be,
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I never will revoke my vow,
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nor deeme any Lasse above you,
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Then dearest leave your sorrow now,
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for it is I that love you.
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Now if you doe my love deny,
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and utterly refuse me,
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I will not say for love Ile dye,
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in that you shall excuse me:
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Some say so, yet meane nothing lesse,
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but pitty I hope will move you,
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Not to put me to that distresse,
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for it is I that love you.
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The second part;
Being an answer of the Maiden kinde,
Correspondent to the plaine Young-mans minde.
To the same tune.
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AS the lost infant doth rejoyce,
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when he hath found his Mother,
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So am I glad to heare the voyce
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of you my constant Lover:
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Beleeve me Harry if you will,
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since I so true doe prove you,
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Come when you will and welcome still
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for it is I that love you.
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I loved a false disloyall youth,
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which causd my thus lamenting,
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For in his words there were no truth,
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but subtill circumventing;
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You use plaine dealing which is best,
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so still it doth behove you,
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And therefore set your heart at rest,
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for it is I that love you.
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And now henceforth I will give ore,
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to weepe for him that jeeres me,
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And his affection Ile abhorre,
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for no true love he beares me,
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With you I will rejoyce my deare,
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let no false tales remove you,
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Beleeve not every newes you heare,
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for it is I that love you.
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As Hypsocrats of Pontus Queene,
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did follow her Mithridates,
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Thorow uncouth woods & forrests green
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so nothing shall separate us:
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Ile circulate the word with you,
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nought shall from me remove you,
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Thinke not that I speake more thans true
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for it is I that love you.
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Nor Lucrece nor Penelope,
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shall be more chast than I will,
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Ere Ile forsake my honesty,
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ten thousand deaths I dye will,
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You need not to repent your choice,
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but let me true still prove you,
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And so we shall together rejoyce,
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for it is I that love you.
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Judge not amisse, because so soone
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I yeeld to your requesting,
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Love is a thing that ought to be done,
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without any fraud or jesting:
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You love plaine dealing as you say,
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then why should I disprove you,
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Against my mind I cant say nay,
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for it is I that love you.
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And thus with mind reciprocall,
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this couple were well matched;
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The Parson told the Parish all,
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and then twas quite dispatched;
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I hope the love that twixt them past,
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unto delight would move you,
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Each of them usd this Phrase toth last,
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for it is I that love you.
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