There Where I Saw

There, where I saw her lovely beauty painted,

where, Venus-like, my sacred goddess shineth

there, with precellent object mine eyes fainted,

that fair, but fatal star, my dole divineth.

As soon as morning in her light appeareth,

her sweet salute my mind o'erclouded cleareth

when night again the day's delight bereaveth,

my heart's true sacrifice she quick receiveth:

but night and day she craftily forsakes me,

to tedious day, to loathsome night betakes me.