56.
Worthy friend, thou’rt deep in love,
And beneath new pangs thou’rt fretting;
Darker grows it in thy head,
In thy heart ’tis lighter getting.
Worthy friend, thou’rt deep in love,
And thou fain would’st hide thy yearning
Yet I see thy heart’s fierce glow
Through thy waistcoat hotly burning.
57.
I fain would linger by thee,
And rest beside thee too;
Away thou needs must hie thee,
Thou hast so much to do.
I said that I surrender’d
My very soul to thee;
An answering bow was tender’d,
Thou laughedst full of glee.
Thou cruelly didst use me,
And treat my love amiss;
At last thou didst refuse me
The usual parting kiss.
Don’t think that I deem it my duty
To shoot myself any the more;
For all of this, my beauty,
Has happen’d to me before.
58.
A pair of sapphires are thine eyes,
So clear, so sweetly roving;
O three times happy is the man
Whom those fair eyes are loving.