Where Most My Thoughts / Despiteful Thus

Where most my thoughts, there least mine eye is striking

where least I come, there most my heart abideth

where most I love, I never show my liking

from what my mind doth hold, my body slideth

I careless seem, where most my care dependeth

a coy regard, where most my soul attendeth.

Despiteful thus unto myself I languish

and in disdain myself from joy I banish.

These secret thoughts enwrap me so in anguish

that life, I hope, will soon from body vanish

and to some rest will quickly be conveyed,

that on no joy while so I liv'd hath stayed.