_90._ _Voices at the Window_ _Who is it that, this dark night,_ _Underneath my window plaineth?_ It is one who from thy sight Being, ah, exiled, disdaineth Every other vulgar light. _Why, alas, and are you he?_ _Be not yet those fancies changèd?_ Dear, when you find change in me, Though from me you be estrangèd, Let my change to ruin be. _Well, in absence this will die:_ _Leave to see, and leave to wonder._ Absence sure will help, if I Can learn how myself to sunder From what in my heart doth lie. _But time will these thoughts remove;_ _Time doth work what no man knoweth._ Time doth as the subject prove: With time still the affection groweth In the faithful turtle-dove. _What if you new beauties see?_ _Will not they stir new affection?_ I will think they pictures be (Image-like, of saints’ perfection) Poorly counterfeiting thee. _But your reason’s purest light_ _Bids you leave such minds to nourish._ Dear, do reason no such spite! Never doth thy beauty flourish More than in my reason’s sight. _90._ leave] cease. _91._ _Philomela_ The Nightingale, as soon as April bringeth Unto her rested sense a perfect waking, While late-bare Earth, proud of new clothing, springeth, Sings out her woes, a thorn her song-book making; And mournfully bewailing, Her throat in tunes expresseth What grief her breast oppresseth, For Tereus’ force on her chaste will prevailing. _O Philomela fair, O take some gladness_ _That here is juster cause of plaintful sadness!_ _Thine earth now springs, mine fadeth;_ _Thy thorn without, my thorn my heart invadeth._ Alas! she hath no other cause of anguish But Tereus’ love, on her by strong hand wroken; Wherein she suffering, all her spirits languish, Full womanlike complains her will was broken But I, who, daily craving, Cannot have to content me, Have more cause to lament me, Since wanting is more woe than too much having. _O Philomela fair, O take some gladness_ _That here is juster cause of plaintful sadness!_ _Thine earth now springs, mine fadeth;_ _Thy thorn without, my thorn my heart invadeth._ _92._ _The Highway_