_Poliphilus_, whether dost thou go vnfortunate? whether dost thou hasten
thy steppes? hopest thou euer to behold againe any desired good? Behould
all thy gratious conceits and pleasant highe delyghtes builded in thy
apprehensiue thoughtes, through the sweetenes of loue, are deadly
shaken, and abruptlie precipitated and cast downe? Looke how thy loftie
_Amorous_ cogitations are shaken in peeces and auchilated. Ah me what
iniurious lot & maleuolent constellations, haue so perniciously driuen,
and deceitfully allured thee into this miserable obscure darknes? and
now haue despitefully ledde thee in a heape of mortal feares, and
drowning in a deepe sea of vnspeakeable sorrowes. To the vnmercifull
deuouring and sodaine gobbling vp of so filthie a monster, and to bee
rotted and disgested in the stinking intrailes of so fowle a beast, and
to bee cast out in so vile a place. Oh lamentable and vnaccustomed
death. O miserable end of my desired life. Where are my eyes? what be
they barreine? Is their humor gone? Are there no more teares left to
fall trickeling downe my blubbered cheekes? Well then I perceiue that
death is at my backe, who did euer see such a change of fortune? Behold
vnhappie and wayward death, and the last houre, and accursed minute
thereof at hande, in this darkesome shade, where my bodie and flesh is
appointed to bee a foode for so fowle a beast. What furie? what
crueltie? what miserie more monstrous can a mortall creature suffer.
That sweete and pleasant light should bee rest from them that bee aliue,
and the earth denied to them that are dead. What hoggish calamitie, and
deformed mishap, so greeuously and vntimely shall abandon from mee my
most desired and florishing _Polia_, Farewell the merror of all vertue,
and true perfection of beautie, farewell.

And thus beyond all measure tost and tumbled in such and so great
afflictions, my verie soule was vexed within me, striuing to be set at
libertie from my vnfortunate and feeble bodie, passing vp and downe I
knew not where. My legges weake, feeble, and fowltering vnder mee, my
spirites languishing, and my sences in a maner gone from mee. Sauing
that I called deuoutly vppon the omnipotent God to haue pittie vppon
mee, and that some good Angell might bee appointed to conduct mee out.
And with that beholde I discouered a little light. To the which, how
gladly I hasted, let euerie one iudge what hee would doo in such a
perplexitie.

I saw an euerlasting Lampe, burni