Original spelling, modern orthography 1. Loue Is a prettie Frencie, a melancholy fire, begot by lookes, maintain'd with hopes, and hey th'end, by desire. 2. Love is a pretie Tyrant, By our affections armed, Take them away, none lives this day, The Coward boy hath harmed. 3. Love is a pretie Idole, Opinion did devise him, His votaries is slouth and lies, The Robes that doe disguise him. 4. Love is a pretie Painter, And counterfeiteth passion, His shadow'd lies, makes fancies rise, To set beliefe in fashion. 5. Love is a pretie Pedlar, Whose Packe is fraught with sorrowes, With doubts with fears, with sighs with teares, Some joyes, but those he borrowes. 6. Love is a pretie nothing, Yet what a quoile it keepes, With thousand eyes of jealousies, Yet no one ever sleepes.