You may esteem him A child for his might; Or you may deem him A coward for his flight; But if she whom Love doth honour Be conceal’d from the day-- Set a thousand guards upon her, Love will find out the way. Some think to lose him By having him confined; And some do suppose him, Poor heart! to be blind; But if ne’er so close ye wall him, Do the best that ye may, Blind Love, if so ye call him, He will find out his way. You may train the eagle To stoop to your fist; Or you may inveigle The Phœnix of the east; The lioness, you may move her To give over her prey; But you’ll ne’er stop a lover-- He will find out the way. If the earth it should part him, He would gallop it o’er; If the seas should o’erthwart him, He would swim to the shore; Should his Love become a swallow, Through the air to stray, Love will lend wings to follow, And will find out the way. There is no striving To cross his intent; There is no contriving His plots to prevent; But if once the message greet him That his True Love doth stay, If Death should come and meet him, Love will find out the way! _392._ _Phillada flouts Me_ O what a plague is love! How shall I bear it? She will inconstant prove, I greatly fear it. She so torments my mind That my strength faileth, And wavers with the wind As a ship saileth. Please her the best I may, She loves still to gainsay; Alack and well-a-day! Phillada flouts me. At the fair yesterday She did pass by me; She look’d another way And would not spy me: I woo’d her for to dine, But could not get her; Will had her to the wine-- He might entreat her. With Daniel she did dance, On me she look’d askance: O thrice unhappy chance! Phillada flouts me. Fair maid, be not so coy, Do not disdain me! I am my mother’s joy: Sweet, entertain me! She’ll give me, when she dies, All that is fitting: Her poultry and her bees, And her goose sitting, A pair of mattrass beds, And a bag full of shreds; And yet, for all this guedes, Phillada flouts me! She hath a clout of mine Wrought with blue Coventry, Which she keeps for a sign Of my fidelity: But i’ faith, if she flinch She shall not wear it; To Tib, my t’other wench, I mean to bear it. And yet it grieves my heart So soon from her to part: Death strike me with his dart! Phillada flouts me. Thou shalt eat crudded cream All the year lasting, guedes] goods, property of any kind.