Heau'n for his mercy, what a tide of woes Come rushing on this wofull Land at once?
But go, my true, though wofull comforter, Wipe up the blood in every place above, So that no drop be found about the house: I know all houses will be searcht anon.
But if I mount by murther and deceite, Iustice will thrust aspiring thoughts belowe, And make me caper for to breake my neck, After some wofull lamentation Of my obedience to unlawfulnesse.
Go when you will; I will attend, and pray To send this wofull night a cheerfull day.
What hast thou else to saye ere thou art made To all men heare a wofull spectacle?
Wofull Fredericke Were a beseeming Epitaph for me, The other tastes of too much soveraigntie.
When raging loue with extreme paine So cruell doth straine my hart, And that the teares like fluds of raine Beare witnesse of my wofull smart.
His bent is sweete, his loose is somewhat sowre, In ioy begunne, ends oft in wofull bowre.
Oh, let me intreat thee cease, giue me thy hand, That I may dew it with my mournfull teares: Nor let the raine of heauen wet this place, To wash away my wofull Monuments.
I am a wofull Sutor to your Honour, 'Please but your Honor heare me Ang.
And then the Louer, Sighing like Furnace, with a wofull ballad Made to his Mistresse eye-brow.
Did Yorkes dread Curse preuaile so much with Heauen, That Henries death, my louely Edwards death, Their Kingdomes losse, my wofull Banishment, Should all but answer for that peeuish Brat?
Thou seest, we are not all alone vnhappie: This wide and vniuersall Theater Presents more wofull Pageants then the Sceane Wherein we play in Ia.
See, see the pining Maladie of France: Behold the Wounds, the most vnnaturall Wounds, Which thou thy selfe hast giuen herwofull Brest.
Oh one that was a wofull looker on, ·ead025· When as the noble Duke of Yorke was slaine.
Ah Gloster teach me to forget my selfe, ·dah025· For whilst I thinke I am thy wedded wife, Then thought of this, doth kill my wofull heart.
Some loueth for to whippe, to see how ierkes will smart, In wofull taking is that horse that nedes must drawe in cart.
E482] 5 But for the holy Ghost, and for his giftes of grace, The death of Christ, thy mercie great, man were in wofull case.
Weepe not faire loue, let not thy wofull teares Bode mee, I knowe what thou wouldest not haue to hap It will distaine mine honor wonne in fight To say a womans dreame could me affright.
Wearie your selves in wandring desart wayes, Till that you come where ye your vowes assoyle*, 535 When passing by ye reade these wofull layes On my grave written, rue my Daphnes wrong, And mourne for me that languish out my dayes.
Which, from their first untill their utmost date, 45 Tast no one hower of happines or merth; But like as at the ingate* of their berth They crying creep out of their mothers woomb, So wailing backe go to their wofull toomb.
Behold how tears flow from the learned hill, How the bereaved Nine do daily fill The bosom of the fleeting Air with groans, And wofull Accents, which witness their Moanes.
But when persons retire from us for good and all, we are in danger of looking only on that which is desirable in them to our wofull Disquiet.
I am as wofull as Virginius was, And haue a thousand times more cause then he Sat.
His fearefull friends weare out the wofull night, Ne dare to weepe, nor seeme to vnderstand 8 The heauie hap, which on them is alight, Affraid, least to themselues the like mishappen might.
Canto ii The guilefull great Enchaunter parts The Redcrosse Knight from Truth: Into whose stead faire falshood steps, And workes himwofull ruth.
Suddeinly out of his delightfull dreame 2 The man awoke, and would haue questiond more; But he would not endure that wofull theame 4 For to dilate at large, but vrged sore With percing words, and pittifull implore, 6 Him hastie to arise.
Besides the endlesse routs of wretched thralles, 2 Which thither were assembled day by day, From all the world after their wofull falles, 4 Through wicked pride, and wasted wealthes decay.
But wofull Ladie let me you intrete, 6 For to vnfold the anguish of your hart: Mishaps are maistred by aduice discrete, 8 And counsell mittigates the greatest smart; Found neuer helpe, who neuer would his hurts impart.
It yrkes me, leaue thee in thiswofull state, To tell of Satyrane, where I him left of late.
A wofull match," quoth hee, "is made Where Christ is lost to win a wife.
In this wofull case They did both imbrace, Which mov'd the ruffians in that place Straight for to discover 215 This concealed murder; Whereby the lady saved was.
Unto the wofull man the same he wholly gave, Who very earnestly did pray that Christ his life might save.
A wofull lying in was this, the Lord doth know, God keep all honest vertuous wives from feeling of such woe.
Mocke not a wofull man, good Sir, the poore man said, Redouble not my sorrows so, that are upon me laid.
CANTO II The guilefull great Enchaunter parts the Redcrosse Knight from truth, Into whose stead faire Falshood steps, and workes him wofull ruth.
XXX With which sad instrument of hasty death, That wofull lover, loathing lenger light, A wide way made to let forth living breath.
But wofull Ladie, let me you intrete For to unfold the anguish of your hart: Mishaps are maistred by advice discrete, And counsell mittigates the greatest smart; Found° never helpe who never would his hurts impart.
His fearefull friends weare out the wofull night, Ne dare to weepe, nor seeme to understand The heavie hap, which on them is alight, Affraid, least to themselves the like mishappen might.
Gyneura, let him harbour in thy hart rig and amend his trouble-beaten face, O calme thy hate, whose winds haue rais'd his smart see him not perrish in this wofull case.
Why are you so intentiue to behold, 1960 My pale and wofull lookes, by care controld?
And then my look doth make them laugh, to see my wofull case: How I stand like John hold my staffe, and dare not shew my face.
The very euill that causeth mine anoy The matter is that breedes to me my ioy, Which doth my wofull heart full sore displease, And yet my hap and hard yll lucke doth ease.
Great cause I say, had we to lament them, if lyke homicides, and murderers they had spotted their bloud with sutch fowle bleamish thereby deseruing death, to leaue vs yong Women Widowes in wofull plight.
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