SONNET 7
Farewell Love and all thy laws for ever, Thy baited hooks shall tangleme no more; Senec and Plato call me from thy lore To perfect wealth my wit for to endeavour. In blind error when I did persever, Thy sharp repulse, that pricketh ay so sore, Hath taught me to set in trifles no store, And scape forth, since libertyis liefer. Therefore farewell, go trouble younger hearts, And in me claim no more authority, With idle youth go use thy property, And thereon spend thy many brittle darts. For hitherto though I have lost all my time, Me lusteth no longer rotten boughs to climb. Ffarewell Love and all thy lawes for ever, Thy bayted hookes shall tangill me no more : Senec and Plato call me from thy lore To perfaict welth my wit for to endevèr. In blynde error when I did persevèr ; Thy sherpe repulse, that pricketh ay so sore, Hath taught me to sett in tryfels no store : And scape fourth, syns libertie is levèr. Therefor farewell, goo trouble younger hertes : And in me clayme no more authoritie ; With idill yeuth goo use thy propertie ; And thereon spend thy many brittill dertes. For hitherto though I have lost all my tyme, Me lusteth no lenger rotten boughes to clyme.
NOTES
Senec and Plato = Seneca and Plato, philosophers of the ancient world who preached restraint and abstention from earthly pleasures.endeavour = strive for.that pricketh ay so sore = that isalways so painful.to set in trifles no store = to attach no importance to trivialities.liefer = more desirable.property = power, capabilities.me lusteth no longer = I no longer wish.
