9. So 54

—— E. Spenr

Of this worlds Theatre in which we stay,

My love like the Spectátor ydly sits

Beholdihat all the pageants’ play,

Disguysing diversly my troubled wits.

Sometimes I joy when glad occasion fits,

And mask in myrth lyke to a edy:

Sooer when my joy to sorrow flits,

I waile and make my woes a Tragedy.

Yet she, beholdih stant eye,

Delights not in my merth nor rues’ my smart:

But when I laugh she mocks, and when I cry

She laughes, and hardens evermore her hart.

What then move her? if nor merth nor mone,

She is no woman, but a one.