By moving round her wheel, no sigh
Or laugh from them evokes thereby.
Fortune to be disdained
For all her gifts one well may dread,
Seeing how they are chequerèd
With good and ill, and ne’er should stir
A wise man’s heart for love of her,
One moment bright, and then again
Eclipsed, to nought she falls amain.
List patiently the word I say,
And forthwith tear thine heart away5670
From such a love as this; ’twould foul,
Sully, and stain thy very soul.
If thou hereafter shouldst herein
Toward others in such fashion sin
That, having called thyself their friend,
Didst yet, by chicane, in the end
Seek thine advantage, thou wouldst be
By good men held disdainfully.
This love, whereof I have rehearsed
The nature, flee as thing accursed.5680
Put thou unholy love away.
List thou my speech nor make delay.
But many a thing thou need’st as yet
To learn, since thou believ’st I set
Thee on to hatred: prithee show
Thy meaning, that I fain would know.”
The Lover.
“You have not ceased to urge on me
To cast my Lord off utterly
For some strange wilding love you dight.
Though one should travel day and night5690
