II. Donna leggiadra il cui bel nome honora De fui atti foavi giamai parco, E i don', che fon d'amor faette ed arco, Quando tu vaga parli, o lieta canti Che mover poffa duro alpeftre legno, Qual in colle afpro, al imbrunir di sera Va bagnando l'herbetta ftrana e bella 5 IO 5 Cofi Amor meco insù la lingua fnella E'l bel Tamigi cangio col bel Arno. Canzone. R Idonfi donne e giovani amorosi M' accostandofi attorno, e perche fcrivi, Spuntati ad hor, ad hor a la tua chioma Perche alle spalle tue soverchia soma? Dice mia Donna, e'l fuo dir, é il mio cuore Quefta e lingua di cui fi vanta Amore. IV. Diodati, e te'l dirò con maraviglia, 15 Quel ritrofo io ch'amor spreggiar foléa E de fuoi lacci spesso mi ridéa Gia caddi, ov'huom dabben talhor s'impiglia. Ne treccie d'oro, ne guancia vermiglia 5 M'abbaglian sì, ma fotto nova idea E degli occhi fuoi auventa fi gran fuoco V. Per certo i bei voftr'occhi, Donna mia 10 Effer Effer non puo che non fian lo mio fole Scoffo mi il petto, e poi n'ufcendo poco VI... Giovane piano, e femplicetto amante Poi che fuggir me stesso in dubbio fono, Madonna a voi del mio cuor l'humil dono Faro divoto ; · io certo a prove tante L'hebbi fedele, intrepido, coftante, De pensieri leggiadro, accorto, e buono; Quando rugge il gran mondo, e fcocca il tuono, 5 10 5 S'arma S'arma di fe, e d'intero diamante, Tanto del forfe, e d'invidia ficuro, Di timori, e fperanze al popol use Quanto d'ingegno, e d'alto valor vago, E di cetra fonora, e delle muse: 10 *This Sonnet was made in 1631, and was fent in a letter to a friend, who had importun'd the author to take orders; of which letter there are two draughts in his own Manufcript, and the former runs thus. SIR, "Besides that in fundry refpects I must ac"knowledge me to profit by you whenever we meet, you are often to me, and were "yesterday especially, as a good watch-man to admonish that the hours of the night pafs on (for fo I call my life as yet ob"fcure and unferviceable to mankind) and "that the day is at hand, wherein Chrift "commands all to labor while there is light: "which because I am perfuaded you do to no "other purpose, than out of a true defire that "God fhould be honor'd in every one, I am ever ready, you know, when occafion is, "to give you account, as I ought, though "unask'd, of my tardy moving according to "the precept of my confcience, which I firmly truft is not without God. Yet now "I will not ftrain for any fet apology, but only refer myself to what my mind fhall "have at any time to declare herself at her "best ease. Yet if you think, as you faid, "that too much love of learning is in fault, " and that I have given up myself to dream (6 away my years in the arms of ftudious re"tirement, like Endymion with the moon on |