Fortune and Loue (each other to disgrace)
Striue who should make me Slaue to eithers might;
And, being blinde, fight with shifting place:
So, I am made the Barre ore whom they fight
The Blowes of either often fall on mee;
And, much more often, sith they both are blinde:
But Fortune strikes mee sure, as shee could see;
And Loue doth wound me sore with Blowes more kinde!
Fortune doth chippe me out, and takes away
All outward Things : but Loues impetuous Blowes
Nere cease to sinck till in my Hart they stay
Thus, is my Spoile the Triumphe of these Foes:
But more I yeeld to Loue, then Fortunes might,
Sith I can Liue in Loue , in Fortunes spight.