O most
divine looks, O lovely graces, and thereupon instantly he makes an epigram,
or a sonnet to five or seven tunes, in her commendation, or else he
ruminates how she rejected his service, denied him a kiss, disgraced him,
&c., and that as effectually torments him. And these are his exercises
between comb and glass, madrigals, elegies, &c., these his cogitations till
he see her again. But all this is easy and gentle, and the least part of
his labour and bondage, no hunter will take such pains for his game, fowler
for his sport, or soldier to sack a city, as he will for his mistress'
favour.

[5425] "Ipsa comes veniam, neque me salebrosa movebunt
Saxa, nec obliquo dente timendus aper."

As Phaedra to Hippolitus. No danger shall affright, for if that be true the
poets feign, Love is the son of Mars and Venus; as he hath delights,
pleasures, elegances from his mother, so hath he hardness, valour, and
boldness from his father. And 'tis true that Bernard hath; _Amore nihil
mollius, nihil volentius_, nothing so boisterous, nothing so tender as
love. If once, therefore, enamoured, he will go, run, ride many a mile to
meet her, day and night, in a very dark night, endure scorching heat, cold,
wait in frost and snow, rain, tempest, till his teeth chatter in his head,
those northern winds and showers cannot cool or quench his flame of love.
_Intempesta nocte non deterretur_, he will, take my word, sustain hunger,
thirst, _Penetrabit omnia, perrumpet omnia_, "love will find out a way,"
through thick and thin he will to her, _Expeditissimi montes videntur omnes
tranabiles_, he will swim through an ocean, ride post over the Alps,
Apennines, or Pyrenean hills,

[5426] "Ignem marisque fluctus, atque turbines
Venti paratus est transire,"------

though it rain daggers with their points downward, light or dark, all is
one: (_Roscida per tenebras Faunus ad antra venit_), for her sweet sake he
will undertake Hercules's twelve labours, endure, hazard, &c., he feels it
not. [5427]"What shall I say," saith Haedus, "of their great dangers they
undergo, single combats they undertake, how they will venture their lives,
creep in at windows, gutters, climb over walls to come to their
sweethearts," (anointing the doors and hinges with oil, because they should
not creak, tread soft, swim, wade, watch, &c.), "and if they be surprised,
leap out at windows, cast themselves headlong down, bruising or breaking
their legs or arms, a