young man, [5834]when no other means could prevail, was so speedily
relieved. What remains then but to join them in marriage?

[5835] "Tunc et basia morsiunculasque
Surreptim dare, mutuos fovere
Amplexus licet, et licet jocari;"

"they may then kiss and coll, lie and look babies in one another's eyes,"
as heir sires before them did, they may then satiate themselves with love's
pleasures, which they have so long wished and expected;

"Atque uno simul in toro quiescant,
Conjuncto simul ore suavientur,
Et somnos agitent quiete in una."

Yea, but _hic labor, hoc opus_, this cannot conveniently be done, by reason
of many and several impediments. Sometimes both parties themselves are not
agreed: parents, tutors, masters, guardians, will not give consent; laws,
customs, statutes hinder: poverty, superstition, fear and suspicion: many
men dote on one woman, _semel et simul_: she dotes as much on him, or them,
and in modesty must not, cannot woo, as unwilling to confess as willing to
love: she dare not make it known, show her affection, or speak her mind.
"And hard is the choice" (as it is in Euphues) "when one is compelled
either by silence to die with grief, or by speaking to live with shame." In
this case almost was the fair lady Elizabeth, Edward the Fourth his
daughter, when she was enamoured on Henry the Seventh, that noble young
prince, and new saluted king, when she broke forth into that passionate
speech, [5836] "O that I were worthy of that comely prince! but my father
being dead, I want friends to motion such a matter! What shall I say? I am
all alone, and dare not open my mind to any. What if I acquaint my mother
with it? bashfulness forbids. What if some of the lords? audacity wants. O
that I might but confer with him, perhaps in discourse I might let slip
such a word that might discover mine intention!" How many modest maids may
this concern, I am a poor servant, what shall I do? I am a fatherless
child, and want means, I am blithe and buxom, young and lusty, but I have
never a suitor, _Expectant stolidi ut ego illos rogatum veniam_, as
[5837]she said, A company of silly fellows look belike that I should woo
them and speak first: fain they would and cannot woo,--[5838]_quae primum
exordia sumam_? being merely passive they may not make suit, with many such
lets and inconveniences, which I know not; what shall we do in such a case?
sing "Fortune my foe? "------

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