That fruitfull issue may to you afford, Which may your foes confound, 105 And make your ioyes redound Upon your brydale day, which is not long: Sweet Themmes!
So let us rest, sweet Love, in hope of this, And cease till then our tymely ioyes to sing: 425 The woods no more us answer, nor our eccho ring!
But thys fayre Weather lasted not long, for as the ioyesof men do not long endure but wast in lyttle time, so bee the delights of louers lesse firme and stedefast and passe away almost in one moment of an houre.
This penaunce which I beare by yelding to thy hest Great store of ioyes shall heape, and bring my mynde to rest.
Euery true wife hath an indented[149] heart, Wherein the covenants of loue are writ, Whereof her husband keepes the counterpart, And reads his comforts and his ioyes in it.
But euery widdowes heart is like a booke, Where her ioyes past, imprinted doe remaine, But when her iudgements eye therein doth looke; She doth not wish they were to come againe.
Maids cannot iudge, because they cannot tell, What comforts and what ioyes in marriage be: Maid.
Diuine reuenge, of which (as of the ioyes aboue) there is no fulnes or satietie.
For not tymes measure makes pleasure more full, tedious and dull all ioyes are thought 10 y^t are not in an instant wrought.
Great ioy was made that day of young and old, 2 And solemne feast proclaimd throughout the land, That their exceeding merth may not be told: 4 Suffice it heare by signes to vnderstand The vsuall ioyes at knitting of loues band.
My Soueraine, 6 Whose glory is in gracious deeds, and ioyes Throughout the world her mercy to maintaine, 8 Eftsoones deuisd redresse for such annoyes; Me all vnfit for so great purpose she employes.
Queene My lord I will, and it ioyes me at the soule He is incln'd to any kinde of mirth.
Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a Cloud: And after Summer, euermore succeedes Barren Winter, with his wrathfull nipping Cold; So Cares and Ioyes abound, as Seasons fleet.
Amour 4 My faire, had I not erst adorned my Lute With those sweet strings stolne from thy golden hayre, Vnto the world had all my ioyes been mute, Nor had I learn'd to descant on my faire.
Amour 41 Rare of-spring of my thoughts, my dearest Loue, Begot by fancy on sweet hope exhortiue, In whom all purenes with perfection stroue, Hurt in the Embryon makes my ioyes abhortiue.
Our viols want their sweet and pleasing sound, our melodie is mar'd and we of ioyes debard, O wicked world so mutable and transitory.
All the bushes that be neere, With sweet Nightingales beset, Hush sweete and be still, Let them sing their fill, There's none our ioyes to let.
Amour 49 Define my loue, and tell the ioyes of heauen, Expresse my woes, and shew the paynes of hell; Declare what fate vnlucky starres haue giuen, And aske a world vpon my life to dwell.
It is too early yet, So soone from ioyes to flit Why art thou so vnkind?
Thanks worthy Lord vnto your King and you, It ioyes me much that in extremity, I found so sure a friend as Ptolomey, Sem.
Drowne desperate sorrow in dead Edwards graue, And plant your ioyes in liuing Edwards Throne.
With all my heart, and much it ioyes me too, To see you are become so penitent.
And there fore, sir (as well I know your skill) If you will give me physicke for this ill And shewe me if Eurymine do live, It were a recompence for all my paine, And I should thinke my ioyes were full againe.
O stay with him who conquered thou hast, With him whose restles thoughts do beat on thee, With him that ioyes thy wished face to see, With him whose ioyes surmount all ioyes aboue If thou wouldst thinke him worthie of thy loue.
My father's late displeasure is forgot, And there's no let nor any churlish blot To interrupt our ioyes from being compleat, But only thy good favour to intreat.
Behold, deare Love, to make your ioyes abound, Yonder Phylander comes.
O sweet dispised ioyes of poverty, A happines unknowne unto the Gods!
What power is that can fortifie a man To ioy in death, since all we can expect Is but fruition of the ioyes of life?
Wilt thou, I say, for euer breed my paine, And wilt thou not restore my Ioyes againe?
And in my selfe behold my pleasures past, Swimming amongst the ioyes I cannot tast.
A footra for the World, and Worldlings base, I speake of Affrica, and Golden ioyes Fal.
O may the best Of euerlasting ioyes bath thy white brest.
Though all the ioyes I had, fled hence with thee, 1 Vnkind!
Nor will the virgin ioyes we wed 15 Come lesse vnbroken to our bed, Because that from the bridall cheek of Blisse Thou steal'st vs down a distant kisse.
The ioyeswhich we intire should wed 15 Come deflour'd-virgins to our bed.
Queene My lord I will, and itioyes me at the soule He is inclin'd to any kinde of mirth.
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