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likewise scorned in love as well as I

By that self-loving boy, which did disdain

To hear her after him for love to cry,

For which in dens obscure she doth remain;

Yet doth she answer to each speech and voice,

And renders back the last of what we speak,

But specially, if she might have her choice,

She of unkindness would her talk forth break.

She loves to hear of love's most sacred name,

Although, poor nymph, in love she was despised;

And ever since she hides her head for shame,

That her true meaning was so lightly prised;

She pitying me, part of my woes doth bear,

As you, good shepherds, listening now shall hear.