showne:
And then she pluckt away the murtherous blade,
And curst the hands by whom it first was made,
And yet she kist his hand that held the same,
And double kist the wound from whence it came.
Him selfe was author of his death she knew,
For yet the wound was fresh, and bleeding new,
And some bloud yet the ill-made wound did keepe,
VVhich when she saw, she freshly gan to weepe,
And wash the wound with fresh tears down distilling,
And view'd the same (God wot) with eyes vnwilling.

39

She would haue spoke, but griefe stopt vp her breath,
For me (quoth she) my Loue is done to death,
And shall I liue, sighes stopt her hindmost word,
When speechlesse vp she tooke the bloudy sword,
And then she cast a looke vpon her Loue,
Then to the blade her eye she did remoue.
And sobbing cride, since loue hath murthred thee,
He shall not chuse but likewise murther me:
That men may say, and then she sigh'd againe,
I him, he me, loue him and me hath slaine.
Then with resolue, loue her resolue did further:
With that same blade, her selfe, her selfe did murther.

40

Then with a sigh, she fell vpon the blade,
And from the bleeding wound the sword had made,
Her fearefull bloud ran trickling to the ground,
And sought about, till _Pyramus_ it found:
And hauing found him, circled in his corse,
As who should say, Ilegard thee by my force.
And when it found his bloud, as forth it came,
Then would it stay, and touch, and kisse the same,
As who should say, my mistresse loue to thee,
Though dead in her, doth still remaine in me,
And for a signe of mutuall loue in either,
Their ill shed bloud congealed both together.

_FINIS._

_Diella_,
Certaine Sonnets, adioyned
to the amorous Poeme of
_Dom Diego_ and _Gineura_.

_By R. L. Gentleman_.

Benballa, a chi fortuna suona.

AT LONDON,
Printed for _Henry Olney_, and are
to be sold at his shop in Fleetstreete,
neer the Middle-temple gate.
1596.

THE LOVE OF DOM
_Diego_ and _Gyneura_.

In _Catheloygne_, o'repeerd by _Pyren_ Mountaines,
(a Prouince seated in the East of Spaine,
Famous for hunting sports & cleerest fountains)
a young heroyck gallant did remaine;
Hee, Signior _Dom Diego_ had to name,
Who for his constant faith had got such fame.

Nature had tryde her deepest skill on him,