The ventrous Louer after long absence craues his Ladie to meete with him in place to enterparle of hir auentures

IF so Leander durst
from Abydon to Sest
To swim to Herô whome he chose
his Friend aboue the rest,
And gage his comely corse
vnto the sowsing Tyde
To lay his water beaten lims
fast by hir tender side:
Then I (my Deare) whose gleames
and ardor doth surpasse
The scorching flame and blasing heate
that in Leander was,
May well presume to take
the greatest toyle in hande,
To reach the place where thou dost lodge
the chiefe of Venus bande.
For not Leanders loue
my friendship doth excell,
Nor Herô may compare with hir
that beares Dame Beauties Bell.
There resteth nought for thée
but to assigne the place,
The mirrie day, the ioyfull houre
when I may sée thy face:
Appoint the certaine Tide
and fixed stem of stay,
And thou shalt sée thy faithfull Friend
will quickly come his way
Not dréeding any doubt:
but ventrously will go
Through thick and thin to gaine a glimse
of thée his sugred fo.
Where when by hap we méete,
our long endured woes
Shall stint by force of friendly thoughts
which we shall then discloes.
Then eyther may vnfolde
the secrets of the hart,
And show how long dislodge hath bred
our cruell cutting smart.
Then may we fréely chat
of all forepassed toyes,
And put those pensiue pangues to flight
with new recourse of ioyes.
Then pleasure shall possesse
the lodge were Dolour lay,
And mirrie blincks put cloudes of care
and lowring lookes away.
Then kissing may be plide
and clipping put in vre,
And lingred sores by Cupids salues
aspire to quick recure.
Oh dréede thou not at all,
set womans feare a part
And take the courage of a man,
that hast a manly hart
In hostage aie with thée
to vse at thy deuise.
In all affaires and needefull houres
as matter shall arise.
Reuoke to louing minde
how ventrous Thisbe met
In fearefull night with Pyramus
where Nynus Tombe was set.
So hazard thou to come
vnto the pointed place,
To thwart thy Friend, and méete with him
that longs to sée thy face.
Who better will attend
thy friendly comming there,
Than Pyramus of Thysbe did
his disappointed Féere.
For (oh) their méeting was
the reauer of their breath,
The crop of endlesse care, and cause
of either Louers death.
But we so warely will
our fixed time attende,
As no mishap shall grow thereby.
And thus I make an ende
With wishing well to thee,
and hope to méete in place
To enterparle with thée (my Friend)
and tell my dolefull case.