In eternum I was ons determined

In eternum I was ons determined,
For to have lovid and my minde affermed,
That with my herte it shuld be confermed,
In eternum.

Forthwith I founde the thing that I might like,
And sought with love to warme her hert alike.
For as me thought I shulde not se the like,
In eternum.

To trace this daunse I put my self in prese,
Vayne hope did lede, and bad I shuld not cese
To serve, to suffer, and still to hold my pease,
In eternum.

With this first rule I fordred me a pase.
That as me thought, my trouthe had taken place
With full assurans to stand in her grace,
In eternum.

It was not long er I by proofe had found
That feble bilding is on feble grounde ;
For in her herte this worde ded never sownde,
In eternum.

In eternum then from my herte I kest
That I had first determined for the best;
Nowe in the place anothr thought dothe rest,
In eternum.