"The soote season, that bud and bloom forth brings, With green hath clad the hill, and eke the vale: The nightingale w…"

"And thus I see among these pleasant things Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!"

"Love, that liveth and reigneth in my thought, That built his seat within my captive breast; Clad in the arms wherein …"

"Brittle beauty, that Nature made so frail, Whereof the gift is small, and short the season; Flowering to-day, to-morr…"

"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 …"

"When raging love with extreme pain Most cruelly distrains my heart; When that my tears, as floods of rain, Bear witne…"

"Then think I thus: "Sith such repair, So long time war of valiant men, Was all to win a lady fair, Shall I not learn …"

"O happy dames! that may embrace The fruit of your delight; Help to bewail the woful case, And eke the heavy plight Of…"

"I know she swore with raging mind, Her kingdom only set apart, There was no loss, by law of kind, That could have gon…"

"London! hast thou accused me Of breach of laws? the root of strife! Within whose breast did boil to see, So fervent h…"