To fly, and place my thoughts on other things.

Ah, like the bird that fired hath her wings,

The more I move the greater are my pains.

Desire, alas! desire a Zeuxis new,

From the orient borrowing gold, from western skies

Heavenly cinnabar, sets before my eyes

In every place her hair, sweet look and hue;

That fly, run, rest I, all doth prove but vain;

My life lies in those eyes which have me slain.’

The other is a direct imitation of Petrarch’s description of the bower where he first saw Laura.