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1	1	You gentle nymphs that on the meadows play,	You gentle Nymphs, that on these meadows play
2	2	and oft relate the love of shepherds young;	And oft relate the loues of Shepherds young:
3	3	Come, sit you down, for if you please to stay,	Come, sit you downe; for, if you please to stay,
4	4	now ~~you~~ may hear an uncouth passion sung.	Now may you heare an vncouth Passion sung.
5	5	A ~~youth~~ there is, and I am that poor groom	A Lad there is, and I am that poore Groome;
6	6	that's fall'n in love, ~~and~~ cannot tell with whom.	That faln in loue, & cannot tell with whom.
	7
	8		Oh doe not smile at sorrow as a Iest;
	9		With others cares good Natures mooued be:
	10		And, I should weepe, if you had my vnrest.
	11		Then, at my griefe, how, can you merry be?
	12		Ah, where is tender pitie now become?
	13		I am in loue, and cannot tell with whom.
	14
	15		I, that haue oft the rarest features viewd,
	16		And Beautie in her best perfection seene:
	17		I, that haue laught at them that Loue pursude
	18		And euer free, from such affections beene.
	19		Lo now at last, so cruell is my doome;
	20		I am in loue, and cannot tell with whom.
	21
	22		My heart is full nigh bursting with desire,
	23		Yet cannot find from whence these longings flow:
	24		My brest doth burne, but she that lights the fire,
	25		I neuer saw, nor can I come to know.
	26		So great a blisse my fortune keepes my from.
	27		That though I dearly loue; I know not whō.
	28
	29		Ere I had twice foure Springs, renewed seene,
	30		The force of Beautie I began to proue;
	31		And, ere I nine yeares old, had fully beene,
	32		It taught me how to frame a Song of Loue.
	33		And, little thought I, this day should haue come,
	34		Before that I to loue, had found out whom.
	35
	36		For, on my Chinn, the mossy downe you see,
	37		And, in my vaines, well-heated blood doth glow:
	38		Of Summers I haue seene twice three times three,
	39		And, fast, my youthfull time away doth goe.
	40		That much I feare, I aged shall become:
	41		And still complaine; I loue I know not whom.
	42
	43		Oh! why had I, a heart bestow'd on me,
	44		To cherish deare affections, so enclind?
	45		Since, I am so vnhappy borne to be
	46		No Obiect, for so true a Loue to find.
	47		When I am dead, it will be mist of some:
	48		Yet, now I liue; I loue, I know not whom.
	49
	50		I, to a thousand beautious Nymphs am knowne;
	51		A hundred Ladies fauours doe I weare:
	52		I, with as many, halfe in loue am growne;
	53		Yet none of them (I find) can be my Deare.
	54		Me thinks, I haue a Mistresse, yet to come;
	55		Which makes me sing; I loue I know not whom
	56
	57		There liues no Swaine doth stronger passion proue,
	58		For her, whom most he couets to possesse;
	59		Then doth my heart, that being full of Loue,
	60		Knowes not to whom, it may the same professe.
	61		For, he that is despisd, hath sorrow, some:
	62		But he hath more; that loues, and knowes not whom
	63
	64		Knew I my Loue, as many others doe,
	65		To some one obiect might my thoughts be bent:
	66		So, they diuided should not wandring goe,
	67		Vntill the Soules vnited force be spent.
	68		As his, that seekes, and neuer finds a Home:
	69		Such is my rest; that loue, & know not whom.
	70
	71		Those, whom the frownes of iealous friends diuide,
	72		May liue to meet, and descant on their woe:
	73		And he, hath gaind a Lady for his Bride,
	74		That durst not woe her Mayd, a while agoe.
	75		But oh! what end vnto my Hopes can come?
	76		That am in loue, and cannot tel with whom.
	77
	78		Poore Collin, grieues that he was late disdaind:
	79		And Cloris, doth for Willy's absence pine.
	80		Sad Thirsis, weeps, for his sicke Phaebe paind.
	81		But, all their sorrowes cannot equall mine.
	82		A greater care alas, on me is come:
	83		I am in loue, and cannot tell with whom.
	84
	85		Narcissus-like, did I affect my shade;
	86		Some shaddow yet, I had, to dote vpon.
	87		Or, did I loue, some Image of the dead,
	88		Whose substance had not breathed long agone;
	89		I might dispaire, and so an end would come;
	90		But, oh, I loue! and cannot tell you whom.
	91
	92		Once in a Dreame, me thought, my Loue I view'd;
	93		But, neuer waking, could her face behold:
	94		And doubtles, that Resemblance was but shew'd,
	95		That more, my tyred heart torment it should.
	96		For, since that time, more grieu'd I am become;
	97		And more in loue; I cannot tell with whom.
	98
	99		When on my bed at night, to rest I lye,
	100		My watchfull eyes, with teares bedew my cheeke:
	101		And then, oh would it once were day, I crie;
	102		Yet when it comes, I am as far to seeke.
	103		For, who can tell, though all the earth he rome;
	104		Or when, or where, to find hee knowes not whom?
	105
	106		Oh! if she be among the beautious traines,
	107		Of all you Nymphs, that haunt the siluer •ills;
	108		Or, if you know her, Ladies of the Plaines,
	109		Or you, that haue your Bowers, on the Hills.
	110		Tell if you can, who will my loue become:
	111		Or I shal die, and neuer know for whom.