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¶ The desperate Louer exclaymeth his Ladyes cruelty
and threatneth to kill himselfe. +Compare with Tottel , ‘The Lover refused of his love’. *Tottel omits ll. 24-7 and 40-3, and its fourth stanza between ll. 15-6 is the seventh stanza in this version, other differences listed by Rollins lead him to conclude ‘Perhaps Proctor followed a manuscript or a broadside copy rather than any edition of Tottel ‘. Variants listed (T). Author: unattributed. Structure (May/Ringler): 40: 10×4 abab6

M Y ioyful dayes  beebée  pastyouthfull yeres are past (T) , My plasant yeres beioyfull dayes are (T)  gone, My life it may not last My graue and I am one. 

 My mirth, and all isioyes are (T)  fled And I a man in woo, DesirethDesirous (T)  to bee dead My mischeefe to forgoe. 

I burne and am a colde  I freese in middest ofamids the (T)  fire, I  seesée  sheeshée  dooth with hold That most I doois my most (T)  desire. 

I  sée thathow (T)  sheeshée  doth  seesée And yet shee wilbe blinde,  I see in healpinge mee SheeShée  seekethseekes (T)  and wil not finde. 

I  seesée  how  sheeshée  doth wrye When I begin to mone, I see when I come nye  How fayn   sheeshée  wouldshe would like                                  to  be gone. 

I see shee knoweth my harte And how I doo complayne, I see shee knoweth my smartepain Shee seeth I doo not faynepretend . 

 I see my helpe at hand I see my death also. I see where shee doth stand I see my cruell fo. 

I see, what would you more?25. more (T)  Shee would26. will (T)  mee gladly kill, And sheeyou (T)  shall see therfore That s

hee shall haue her will. 

I cannot liue by29. with (T)  stones It is to harde a food,  I would31. will (T)  be dead at once to doo my Lady good. 

Shee shall haue her request And I will haue mine ende, Lo heeve  my m y  blouddy brest  To please her most vnkinde. 

FINIS.

¶ The Louer beeing blinded with the faythlesse loue of his Lady
is contented to remit her fault vpon promis of amendment. +Author: unattributed. Structure (May/Ringler): 24: 4×6 abab6cc10, abab6ccc12, mixed.

S Ince that thou diddest mee loue When lust did thee prouoke, And that thou doost well proue: That I cannot reuoke.

¶ The Louer beeing blinded with the faythlesse loue of his Lady is contented to remit her fault vpon promis of amendment. +Author: unattributed. Structure (May/Ringler): 24: 4×6 abab6cc10, abab6ccc12, mixed.

¶ The Louer beeing blinded with the faythlesse loue of his Lady
is contented to remit her fault vpon promis of amendment. +Author: unattributed. Structure (May/Ringler): 24: 4×6 abab6cc10, abab6ccc12, mixed.