To ERANTINA.

IT is a wounderfull delight I take to liue i• Loue; it is euer at my heart, and most in my mouth: and such assistaunce it giueth to my life, that it seemes the best munition I haue found in this humane peregrination. The Dis∣ciples of Hegesias, hunger starued them selues to death, incensed therevnto with the perswa∣ding discourses of his lessons, til the time King Ptolomey forbade him any longer to entertaine his Schoole with such murtherous preceptes. Though I weare the howers of the day, and waste the dayes of my life in Loue: I muse, I roue, and walke: I enregister my humors and my passions. Let none be entised by my ex∣ample: for I am borne to loue, and to die