The Pastime of Pleasure: An Allegorical Poem

by Stephen Hawes

Wo worth my lady that wyll not it releace;

Wo worth fortune both even and morow;

Wo worth trouble that shall have no peace;

Wo worth cruelte that may never cease;

Wo worth youth that wyll not pitie have;

Wo worth her that wyll not her love save;

Wo worth the trust without assuraunce;

Wo worth love rewarded with hate;

Wo worth love replete with variaunce;

Wo worth love without a frendly mate;