⟨Fortune Never Fails.⟩

• 1WHat if I come to my miſtris bedd
• 2The candles all ecclipſt from ſhyninge,
• 3Shall I then attempt for her mayden-head
• 4  Or ſhowe my ſelfe a coward by declyninge?
• 5          Oh noe
• 6        Fie doe not ſoe,
• 7  For thus much I knowe by devyninge,
• 8          Blynd is Love
• 9        The dark it doth approve,
• pg 454Critical Apparatus10  To pray on pleasures pantinge;
• 11          What needeth light
• 12        For Cupid in the night,
• 13  If jealous eyes be wantinge.

• Critical Apparatus14Fortune never failes, if ſhe badd take place,
• 15  To ſhroude all the faire proceedings:
• 16Love and ſhe though blynd, yet each other embrace,
• 17  To favor all their ſervants meetings:
• 18          Venture I ſay
• Critical Apparatus19        To ſport and to play,
• 20  If in place all be fitting;
• 21          Though ſhe ſay fie
• 22        Yet doth ſhe not denie:
• 23  For ſie is but a word of tryall:
• 24          Jealosie doth ſleepe,
• 25        Then doe not weepe
• Critical Apparatus26  At force of a faynt denyall.

• 27Glorious is my love, with tryumphs in her face,
• Critical Apparatus28  Then to to bould were I to venter:
• Critical Apparatus29Who loves deſerves to live in a princes grace,
• 30  Why ſtand you then affraid to enter?
• 31          Lights are all out
• 32        Then make noe doubt
• Critical Apparatus33  A lover bouldly maye take chuſinge.
• 34          Bewtie is a baite
• 35        For a princely mate.
• 36  Fy, why ſtand you then a muſinge?
• 37          You'll repent too late
• 38        If ſhe doe you hate,
• 39  For loves delight refuſinge.