Medlar-pear and nectarine;

Terrors run to me at dawn

Tamer than the velvet fawn;

Not to me hath Love denied

His great star of eventide.

Fate, where is thy splintered spear

Met me in the tourney year?

Once thou wert in overthrow,

Then I laughed, and let thee go.

Wouldst thou yet make sport of me,