THE SECOND BOOKE
of  S o n g s  or  A y r e s

J O H N   D OVV L A N D

1600

XVIII. Faction that euer dwels in court.

       1   Faction that euer dwels,
            In court where wits excells, 
               Hath set defiance.
            Fortune and loue hath sworne,
            That they were neuer borne,
               Of one aliance.

       2   Fortune sweares, weakest harts,
            The booke of Cupids arts
               Turne with hir wheele,
            Sences themselues shall proue
            Venture hir place in loue
               Aske them that feele.

       3   This discord it beget
            Atheist that honour not
               Nature thought good,
            Fortune should euer dwell
            In court where wits excell
               Loue keepe the wood.

       4   So to the wood went I
            With loue to liue and die
               Fortune forlorne,
            Experience of my youth
            Made mee thinke humble truth
               In desert borne.

       5   My saint is deere to mee,
            And Ione hir selfe is shee
               Ione faier and true,
            Ione that doth euer moue,
            Passions of loue with loue
               Fortune adiew.