Englands Parnassus: or the choysest flowers of our moderne poets, with their poeticall comparisons Descriptions of bewties, personages, castles, pallaces, mountaines, groues, seas, springs, riuers, &c. Whereunto are annexed other various discourses, both pleasaunt and profitable.

Of Discontent.

Disquiet thoughts the minutes of her watch, Forth from her Caue the fiend full oft doth flie, To Kings she goes, and troubles them with warres, Setting those high aspiring bonds on fire; That flame from earth vnto the seate of Ioue: To such as Midas, men that dote on wealth, And rent the bowels of the middle earth For coine; who gape as did faire Danae For showres of gold: there discontent in blacke, Throwes forth the violls of her restlesse cares, To such as sit at Paphos for releefe: And offer Ʋenus many solemne vowes, To such as Hymen in his saffron robe, Hath knit a gordian knot of passions, To these, to all, parting the gloomy ayre, Blacke discontent doth make her bad repaire. R. Greene.

Obscure and darke is all the gloomy aire, The curtaine of the night is ouer-spread; The silent mistresse of the lowry spheare, Put on her sable coloured vale and lower, Nor starre, nor milk-white circle of the skie,

Appeares where Discontent doth hold her lodge, She sits shrin'd in a canapy of clouds, vvhose massie darknes mazeth euery sence, vvan is her lookes, her cheekes of azure hue, Her haire as Gorgons foule retorting snakes; Enuie the glasse, wherein the hag doth gaze, Restlesse the clocke that chimes her fast a sleepe.