Fair-Welcome.
Dear dame, quoth he, for your return
I’ve watched with fond and loving heart,
For whensoever you depart,
Howe’er you deem of it, my soul
Within me sinks oppressed with dole.
O tenderly, beloved one, say
Why have you stayed so long away?
The Duenna.
Wherefore? pardee, I’ll quickly dight,
The reason to your great delight,13270
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The crone, desirous to console
Fair-Welcome’s grief and bitter dole,
The Lover’s story doth relate,
Who is for him disconsolate.
The chaplet
If only you are brave and wise;
For through my hands, by great surprise,
The noblest gallant known on earth,
Of fairest wit and greatest worth,
And who with grace saluteth you
Each time I see him passing through13280
The street, doth this fair chaplet send,
As token from a loving friend.
Most gladly, saith he, would he see
Your face, and die right willingly,
Nor care to know another day
Of health, if only he might pay
