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Be bold I will not kill with loue, Nor loue shall not kill me.

FINIS. Bar. Yong.

¶ His aunswere to the Nimphs Song. +Printed in Yong, Diana (1598), p. 473. An answer to Melisea her song, in scorn of her shepherd Narcissus . Prefaced by ‘ Narcissus tooke no meane griefe to heare the cruell song of his deerest Loue… and forced by the constancie and fortitude of his enamoured hart, he answered her with two staues, which he adioyned to a certaine old song, that said thus’. Answered by ‘Her present answer again to him’ . Author: Bartholomew Yong. Structure (May/Ringler): 20: 5×4 abab8, rhymes of stanza 1 repeated in ll. 9-12, 17-20.

I F to be lou’d it thee offend, I cannot choose but loue thee still: And so thy greefe shall haue no end, Whiles that my life maintaines my will.

 O let me yet with greefe complaine, since such a torment I endure: Or else fulfill thy great disdaine, to end my life with death most sure. For as no credite thou wilt lend,  and as my loue offends thee still: So shall thy sorrowes haue no end, whiles that my life maintaines my will. 

If that by knowing thee, I could leaue off to loue thee as I doo:  Not to offend thee, then I would leaue off to like and loue thee too. But since all loue to thee dooth tend, and I of force must loue thee still: Thy greefe shall neuer haue an end,  whiles that my life maintaines my will. 

FINIS. Bar. Yong.