VI

_Love's seven deadly sins_

Mine eye with all the deadly sins is fraught.

First _proud_, sith it presumed to look so high.

A watchman being made, stood gazing by,

And _idle_, took no heed till I was caught.

And _envious_, bears envy that by thought

Should in his absence be to her so nigh.

To kill my heart, mine eye let in her eye;

And so consent gave to a _murder_ wrought.

And _covetous_, it never would remove

From her fair hair, gold so doth please his sight.

_Unchaste_, a baud between my heart and love.

A _glutton_ eye, with tears drunk every night.

These sins procurèd have a goddess' ire,

Wherefore my heart is damned in love's sweet fire.

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