(5) If any other loke for it, as you trowbelieve , Their vaine weake hope doth greatly them abuse. And that thus I disdaine, that you refuse. It was once mine, it can no more be so. If you it chasechase my heart away , that itso that my heart in you can finde, (10) In this exile, no maner of comfort: Nor liue alone, nor where he is calde, resort,nor apply elsewhere He may wander from his naturall kinde. +‘That is, die’ (Rollins). So shall it be great hurt vnto vs twayne, And yours the losse, and mine the deadly payne. +See Petrarch, Rime 224, ‘vostro Donna, ‘l peccato et mio fia ‘l danno’, ‘yours will be the blame, Lady, mine the loss’, for other uses of Rime 224, see also: ‘Description of the restless’ *; ‘Charging his love as [unpiteous] and loving other’ *; ‘The lover confesseth’. *
The louers life compared to the Alpes. +Imitates Sannazaro (doubtful attribution), Le Rime (1531), Pt. III, No. 3, ‘Simile a questi smisurati monti/E l’aspra uita mia colma di doglie/… Et io la mente, di superchio affanno’ (f. 49v), reprinted Muir and Thomson , p. 295. Alternative versions appear in Phoenix Nest , ‘Like desart woods, with darksome shades obscured’ * and Englands Helicon , ‘The Sheepherd dumpe’ * and ‘ Thirsis the Sheepheard, to his Pipe’. * Other copies in: L: Egerton 2711, fol. 24; ARUND: Harrington, Temp. Eliz., c. 1550-92, fol. 67v-67 (bis.). Author: attributed to Sir Thomas Wyatt. Structure: 14: abbaabbacddcee5
L Yke vnto these vnmesurable mountaines, So is my painefull life, the burden of yreanger . For hye be they, and hye is my desire. And I of teares, and they be full of fountaines. +Lines 1-4: ‘Lyke unto … fountaines’: cited by Puttenham as an example of ‘Catalecticke and Acatalecticke’ verse, Art of English Poesie ; see also Whigham and Rebhorn’s edition , p. 214. (5) Under craggy rockes they haue barren plaines, Hard thoughtes in me my wofull minde doth tire, +‘the mind “tears” at hard thoughts like a hawk exercising or feeding on tough flesh’ ( Daalder ). Small frute and many leaues their toppes do attire, With small effect great trust in me remaines. The boystous windes oft their hie boughes do blast: (10) Hote sighes infrom me continually be shed. wilde beastes in them, fierce loue in me is fed. Unmoueable am I: and they stedfast. Of singing birdes they haue the tune and note: And I alwaies plainteshave laments, complaints passing through my throte.
Charging of his loue as vnpetious and louing other. +See also: ‘The lover confesseth’ *, ‘The lover prayeth’, l. 14: ‘And yours… payne’ *, ‘Description of the restless’, 18. *; imitated in George Turberville, ‘The Louer confesseth himself to be in Loue and enamored of Mistresse.P.’, Epitaphes : ‘If banish sleepe, and watchfull care,/If minde affright with dreadfull dreames:/… But think my loue ylent to gaine’ (fol. 39r-v), and by Daniel, Sonnet 15, Delia (1592): ‘If that a loyall hart and faith vnfained,/If a sweet languish with a chast desire:/… The fault is hers, though mine the hurt must be’ (fol. 15r). Other copies in: L: Egerton 2711, fol. 12v; ARUND: Harrington, Temp. Eliz., c. 1550-92, fol. 65. Author: Sir Thomas Wyatt. Structure: 14: abbaabbacddcee10
I F amorous fayth, or if an hart vnfainednot false +Cited by Puttenham as an example of the dactylic foot, Art of English Poesie ; see also Whigham and Rebhorn’s edition , p. 211. A swete languor, a great louelyloving desire: If honest will, kindled in gentle fire: If long errourwandering in a blind mase chained, (5) If in my visageface ech thought distained: +The thought reveals itself through heightened colour; tainted with disgrace, shame Or if my sparkelyng voice, +Sparkling; ‘producing scattered sounds’, from the Italian, voci interrotte ( Daalder ). lower, or hier,