[5832] “Julia sola poles nostras extinguere flammas,
        Non nive, nun glacie, sed potes igne pari.”

       “Julia alone can quench my desire,
        With neither ice nor snow, but with like fire.”

When you have all done, saith [5833]Avicenna, “there is no speedier or safer course, than to join the parties together according to their desires and wishes, the custom and form of law; and so we have seen him quickly restored to his former health, that was languished away to skin and bones; after his desire was satisfied, his discontent ceased, and we thought it strange; our opinion is therefore that in such cases nature is to be obeyed.”  Areteus, an old author, lib. 3. cap. 3. hath an instance of a young man, [5834]when no other means could prevail, was so speedily relieved.  What remains then but to join them in marriage?

[5835] “Tunc et basia morsiunculasque
        Surreptim dare, mutuos fovere
        Amplexus licet, et licet jocari;”

“they may then kiss and coll, lie and look babies in one another’s eyes,” as heir sires before them did, they may then satiate themselves with love’s pleasures, which they have so long wished and expected;

       “Atque uno simul in toro quiescant,
        Conjuncto simul ore suavientur,
        Et somnos agitent quiete in una.”

Yea, but hic labor, hoc opus, this cannot conveniently be done, by reason of many and several impediments.  Sometimes both parties themselves are not agreed:  parents, tutors, masters, guardians, will not give consent; laws, customs, statutes hinder:  poverty, superstition, fear and suspicion:  many men dote on one woman, semel et simul:  she dotes as much on him, or them, and in modesty must not, cannot woo, as unwilling to confess as willing to love:  she dare not make it known, show her affection, or speak her mind.  “And hard is the choice” (as it is in Euphues) “when one is compelled either by silence to die with grief, or by speaking to live with shame.”  In this case almost was the fair lady Elizabeth, Edward the Fourth his daughter, when she was enamoured on Henry the Seventh, that noble young prince, and new saluted king, when she broke forth into that passionate speech, [5836] “O that I were worthy of that comely prince! but my father being dead, I want friends to motion such a matter!  What shall I say?  I am all alone, and dare not open my mind to any.  What if I acquaint my mother with it? bashfulness forbids.  What if some of the lords? audacity wants.  O that I might but confer with him, perhaps in discourse I might let slip such a word that might discover mine intention!” How many modest maids may this concern, I am a poor servant, what shall I do?  I am a fatherless child, and want means, I am blithe and buxom, young and lusty, but I have never a suitor, Expectant stolidi ut ego illos rogatum veniam, as [5837]she said, A company of silly fellows look belike that I should woo them and speak first:  fain they would and cannot woo,—­[5838]_quae primum exordia sumam_? being merely passive they may not make suit, with many such lets and inconveniences, which I know not; what shall we do in such a case? sing “Fortune my foe? “------