A floorish vpon fancie As gallant a glose vpon so triflinge a text, as euer was written. Compiled by N.B. Gent. To which are annexed, manie pretie pamphlets, for pleasant heads to passe away idle time withal. By the same authour.
Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?
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¶A prety Dittie in despight of Fantasye.
¶The Argument.
¶Since Fantasye fyrst mooued mee,
To ryme thus rudely as you see.
A prety Dittye of Despight
Gaynst Fantasy, fyrst will I wry••.
NOw by my troth, I cannot ch••se but •myle,
To see the foolish •yttes of Fantasye:
With what deceites she doth the mynde beguyle,
As pleaseth best her great inconstancye.
As well the wysest, as the 〈◊〉 man,
Shee troubleth, I tell you, now and th•n.
And no denyall if shée lyketh once,
It must be had what euer so it bée:
And ech day new Deuices for the 〈◊〉,
Only to please Mistresse fonde Fant•sy.
For she can neuer lyke one thing two dayes,
Though it deserue neuer so great a prayse.
This thing to day, to morrow that agayne,
And yet the next day neyther of them both:
That now she likes, anon she will disdayne,
And whome she loued, séemeth now to loath.
Thus chopping still, and chaunging euery day,
With vayne delightes she leades the mynde away.
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She makes the Louer thinke his Lady fayre,
Although she be as foule, as foule may bée:
Shee makes him eke, build Castles in the Ayre,
And very farre in Milstones for to sée.
And in the ende, I thinke if all were knowne,
Shée makes him sée, a Fooles head of his owne.
Shée makes my Lady so much to e••éeme,
Of her gréene pratling Parratte in the Cage:
This makes her eke her little Page to déeme,
The fynest Boye in England of his age.
This makes her set more by h•re tame whyte Deare,
Then some would doe by twenty poundes a yeare.
And who can choose but laugh to thinke vpon,
Such froward fittes of foolish fantasy?
And how alas the minde is woe begon,
If that it hath not each thing by and by,
That she desyres, what euer so it be,
Cost lyfe or death, it must be had, we sée.
Shée féedes the mynde of man, with many a toye,
Shee makes himselfe to séeke his owne decay:
In thinges of nought, shée makes him set his ioye,
And from all Uertue leades him quyte away.
And shée it is that vaynly caused mée,
Agaynst her selfe to ryme thus as you sée.
Finis.
