142    My Picture left in Scotland

I now thinke, Love is rather deafe, then blind,

For else it could not be,

That she,

Whom I adore so much, should so slight me,

5                       And cast my love behind:

I‘m sure my language to her, was as sweet,

And every close did meet

In sentence, of as subtile feet,

As hath the youngest Hee,

10                      That sits in shadow of Apollo’s tree.

Oh, but my conscious feares,

That flie my thoughts betweene,

Tell me that she hath seene

   My hundreds of gray haires,

15                    Told seven and fortie yeares,

Read so much wast, as she cannot imbrace

My mountaine belly, and my rockie face,

     And all these through her eyes, have stopt her eares.