<< 1 | 2 | 3 | 4                  Dondolo lighted by his Page, apparelled in Tawny, Blew and Black Taffata was the fourth: who upon his Breast bare a Myrrour, set the outside inward, and yet fastened so hope as it might receine light, with an imagination thae shewed hid Heart, tha Beauty of his Mistresse, and in the thought, we wrote upon the outside: Basta che spero : within which glasse, this Sonet was runningly conueyed: which upon a fit oportunitie he resented unto his Mstresse, Lucia Bella         From shore to sea, from dales to mountaines hie, From meddowes fayre, amid the craggie rocke, Loue doth me leade, I know not whither I, But evermore a passage doth unlocke. Now doe I sight, now weepe, now death I feare, In all these stormes, yet loue healme doth steare.         In desart woods I wander too and fro, Where I wilde beastes, and firie Serpents meete. Yet safe I passe, Loue doth direct me so. In tempests rough, my barke doth alwayes flecte, Yea, when Sun, Moone, and starres forsake the skie, Loue giues me light, from my faire Mistresse eye.         I mount heaven, I know not with what winges, I sinke to hell, yet drowne not in distresse: Twixt Ice and flame; Loue me in safety bringes, But to what end? in sooth I cannot gesse: Yet hap what shall, Loue giueth me this scope, In dangers mouth, to liue alwayes in hope.         Faliero lightet by a Page, attired in Peach Color, yellow, and popeniay gréene Taffata was the fifth and last that entered: who (as if she were climing up his Arme) carried a White Turtle, so artificially made, as it deceived no lesse, thane Parrhasius painted Table Cloth: In whose Beake, were finely trowled the Verses         If on firme fayth, one Hart uncharg'd with fraud, One langour sweete, one wish desire doth moue: If honest Zeale, a gentle brest doth lawde, If wandering long, in the Lab'rinth of Loue, If wan pale cheekes, are witnesses of woe, If reaking sighs throwne from a burning heart: If all these, and thousand sorrowes moe, Faire Mistresse, looke but in my Meagre face, And you shall reade, that I have neede of Grace. (…) << 1 | 2 | 3 | 4