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SHall I then
silent be or shall I speake?
And if I speake, her
wrath renew I shall:
and if I silent be, my hart
will breake,
or choked be with ouerflowing gall.
What tyranny is this both my hart to thrall,
and eke
my toung with proud restraint to tie?
that nether I
may speake nor thinke at all,
but like a stupid
stock in silence die.
Yet I my hart with silence
secretly
will teach to speak, and my iust cause to
plead:
and eke mine eies with meeke humility,
loue learned letters to her eyes to read.
Which her
deep wit, that true harts thought can spel,
wil
soone conceiue, and learne to construe well.
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