A Lover‘s Complaint

From off a hill whose concave womb reworded
A plaintful story from a sist‘ring vale,
My spirits t‘attend this double voice accorded,
And down I laid to list the sad-tuned tale,
Ere long espied a fickle maid full pale,
Tearing of papers, breaking rings atwain,
Storming her world with sorrow‘s wind and rain.

Upon her head a platted hive of straw,
Which fortified her visage from the sun,
Whereon the thought might think sometime it saw
The carcase of a beauty spent and done.
Time had not scythed all that youth begun,
Nor youth all quit, but spite of heaven‘s fell rage
Some beauty peeped through lattice of seared age.

Oft did she heave her napkin to her eyne,
Which on it had conceited characters,
Laund‘ring the silken figures in the brine
That seasoned woe had pelleted in tears,
And often reading what contents it bears；
As often shrieking undistinguished woe,
In clamours of all size, both high and low.

So

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