A Louers newest Curranto, or the Lamentation of a young mans folly.
To a pleasant new tune.
AS it fell vpon a day,
in the merry moneth of may:
Sitting in a pleasant shade,
with a gowne of mertle made?
Beasts did leape and birds did sing,
trées they grow and plants they spring▪
Euery bird sings[?] bannish mone,
saue the Nightingale alone:
She poore bird as all forlorne
leanes her breast vnto a thorne:
Where she sung this mournefull ditty,
that to héere it twas great pitty:
Fie, fie, fie, now can she cry.
t [...]-ra-ra-ra-ra-tat [...]-by and by:
For to heare her thus complaine.
scarse from teares I could refraine,
For her griefe so liuely showne,
makes me thinke vpon my owne.
O thought I thou monest in vaine,
none takes pitty of thy paine:
Senselesse trées they cannot héere thée:
retchles birds they will not chéere thée,
King anoy he is dead,
and all thy friends are clad in lead,
All thy fellow birds do sing,
carelesse of thy sorrowing:
While that fickle fortune smiled,
thou and I were both beguiled:
Euery one that flatters thée,
is no [...]iend in misery,
When that I was prodigall,
bountifull they did me call:
And with such flattering,
pitty but I were a King,
But when fortune chanced to frowne,
then farewell thy high renown,
He is thy friend and friend in deed[?],
that stickes to thee in time of néed,
When thou sorrowest he will weepe:
when thou wakest he will not sleepe,
Thus with euery grefe in heart,
he with thée will beare a part.
First entised by many wiles,
and by fortunes fickle smiles:
Griefe it is my chéefest song,
sorrow to me doth belong,
Still I waite and moane to see,
my hard hap and misery.
When all my money it was spent,
no credit vnto me be lent:
But straight they turnd me out of doore[?],
to beg my bread among the poore.
Thus fortune first[?] on me did smile,
and afterwards did me beguile,
Wherefore I wish all youthes that see,
to take war [...]ng héere by mee.
How that they follow Venus trace.
feare least they come to great disgrace,
For the like Syrens will them intice,
and afterwards will them despise,
FINIS.