Nature of winter learneth nigardize
Who, as he ouer-beares the
streame with ice
That man nor beaste maie of their pleasance
taste,
So shutts she up hir conduit
all in haste, 228
And will not let hir Nectar ouer-flowe,
Least mortall man immortall
ioyes should knowe.
Adieu! unconstant loue, to thy disporte
Adieu! false mirth, and melodie
too short; 232
Adieu! faint-hearted instrument of lust;
That falselie hath betrayde
our equale trust.
Hence-forth no more will I implore thine
ayde,
Or thee, or man of cowardize
upbrayde. 236
My little dilldo shall suply their kinde:
A knaue, that moues as light
as leaues by winde;
That bendeth not, nor fouldeth anie deale,
But stands as stiff as he
were made of steele; 240
And playes at peacock twixt my leggs right
blythe,
And doeth my tickling swage
with manie a sighe.
For, by saint Runnion! he’le refresh
me well;
And neuer make my tender bellie
swell. 244
Poore Priapus! whose triumph now must
falle,
Except thou thrust this weakeling
to the walle.
Behould! how he usurps, in bed and bowre
And undermines thy kingdom
euerie howre; 248
How slye he creepes betwixt the barke
and tree,
And sucks the sap, whilst
sleepe detaineth thee.
He is my Mistris page at euerie stound,
And soone will tent a deepe
intrenched wound. 252
He wayte’s on Courtlie Nimphs that
be so coye,
And bids them skorne the blynd-alluring
boye.
He giues yong guirls their gamesome sustenance,
And euerie gaping mouth his
full sufficeance. 256
He fortifies disdaine with forraine artes,
And wanton-chaste deludes
all loving hartes.
If anie wight a cruell mistris serue’s,
Or, in dispaire, (unhappie)
pines and staru’s, 260
Curse Eunuke dilldo, senceless counterfet
Who sooth maie fill, but never
can begett.
But, if revenge enraged with dispaire,
That such a dwarf his wellfare
should empaire, 264
Would faine this womans secretarie knowe,
Lett him attend the markes
that I shall showe:
He is a youth almost two handfulls highe,
Streight, round, and plumb,
yett hauing but one eye, 268
Wherein the rhewme so feruentlie doeth
raigne,
That Stigian gulph maie scarce
his teares containe;
Attired in white veluet, or in silk,
And nourisht with whott water,
or with milk, 272
Arm’d otherwhile in thick congealed
glasse,
When he, more glib, to hell
be lowe would passe.
Vpon a charriot of five wheeles he rydes,
The which an arme strong driuer
stedfast guides, 276