If I freely may discouer
what please me in my louer
I would have her fayre and wittye
Savoringe more of Courte then Cittie
A little proude, but full of pittye
Light and humerous in her toyinge
oft buildinge hopes and oft destroinge
Nor to easye, nor to hard
All extreames, I would have bard /.
By Crispinus,
in Poetaster (2.2.135-144),
Ben Jonson
in Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson poetry 117, f. 30v
She should be allowed her passions
So they wear but vsde as fashions
sometymes froward and then frowninge
Euery fitt wth change still crowninge.
Purelie Iealouse I would have her
Then onlye constant when I craue her
Tis a vertue should not saue her
Thus nor her Delicates should cloye me
Nor her pevishnes annoye me /.
Finis
By Hermogenes,
in Poetaster (2.2.150-159),
Ben Jonson
in Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson poetry 117, f. 30v
Things won are done the soules ioy lies in doinge
That she belovde knows nought, yt knows not this
Men prize the thinge ungayned more then it is
that she was nevre yit, that ever knew
Love goe so sweet, as when desire did sue
Therefore this maxime out of love I teach
Atchievment, is command: vngayned beseech
That though my harts contents firm love doth bear
Nothinge from of that shal from my eyes appear /'
By Cressida,
in Troilus and Cressida (TLN444-453),
William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson poetry 117, f. 156v (rev)
Tis beautye truly blent whost redd and white
natures owne sweet and cunninge hand layd on:
Ladye, you are the cruellest shee alive
If you will lead these graces to the grave
And leave the world no copye
By Viola,
in Twelfth Night (TLN530-535),
William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson poetry 117, f. 162r (rev)
Imperious Casar dead and turnde to claye MightMay stopp a hole to keep the wind awaye
Ô that, that earth wch kept the world in awe
Should patch a wall to expell the waters flawe /
By Hamlet,
in Hamlet (TLN3400-3403),
William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson poetry 117, f.164r (rev)
| Natures hand shooke when she was makinge, for the redd that should have
| spread hir cheeks, nature lett fall vppon hir nose, the white of hir skinne
| chinne: slipt into hir eyes, and the gray of hir eyes ( lept before his tyme )
| into hir haire, and the yellownes of hir haire fell into hir teeth. /
By Hercules,
in The Fawn (3.79-85),
John Marston
in Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson poetry 117, f. 164v (rev)
| Drunkenness is iustice it selfe, for if it take it will restore it agayne
| it makes the kinge and pesant equall, for if they be both druncke
they are both beasts alike
By Hercules,
in The Fawn (5.163-168),
John Marston
in Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson poetry 117, f. 164v (rev)