she gets, out she looks, listens, and
inquires, hearkens, kens; every man afar off is sure he, every stirring in
the street, now he is there, that's he, _male aurorae, malae soli dicit,
deiratque_, &c., the longest day that ever was, so she raves, restless and
impatient; for _Amor non patitur moras_, love brooks no delays: the time's
quickly gone that's spent in her company, the miles short, the way
pleasant; all weather is good whilst he goes to her house, heat or cold;
though his teeth chatter in his head, he moves not; wet or dry, 'tis all
one; wet to the skin, he feels it not, cares not at least for it, but will
easily endure it and much more, because it is done with alacrity, and for
his mistress's sweet sake; let the burden be never so heavy, love makes it
light. [5294]Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and it was quickly gone
because he loved her. None so merry; if he may happily enjoy her company,
he is in heaven for a time; and if he may not, dejected in an instant,
solitary, silent, he departs weeping, lamenting, sighing, complaining.

But the symptoms of the mind in lovers are almost infinite, and so diverse,
that no art can comprehend them; though they be merry sometimes, and rapt
beyond themselves for joy: yet most part, love is a plague, a torture, a
hell, a bitter sweet passion at last; [5295]_Amor melle et felle est
faecundissimus, gustum dat dulcem et amarum_. 'Tis _suavis amaricies,
dolentia delectabilis, hilare tormentum_;

[5296] "Et me melle beant suaviora,
Et me felle necant amariora."

like a summer fly or sphinx's wings, or a rainbow of all colours,

"Quae ad solis radios conversae aureae erant,
Adversus nubes ceruleae, quale jabar iridis,"

fair, foul, and full of variation, though most part irksome and bad. For in
a word, the Spanish Inquisition is not comparable to it; "a torment" and
[5297]"execution" as it is, as he calls it in the poet, an unquenchable
fire, and what not? [5298]From it, saith Austin, arise "biting cares,
perturbations, passions, sorrows, fears, suspicions, discontents,
contentions, discords, wars, treacheries, enmities, flattery, cozening,
riot, impudence, cruelty, knavery," &c.

[5299] ------"dolor, querelae,
Lamentatio, lachrymae perennes,
Languor, anxietas, amaritudo;
Aut si triste magis potest quid esse,
Hos tu das comites Neaera vitae."

These be the companions of lovers, and the ordinary symptoms, as t