Poet George Gascoigne

George Gascoigne

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Fie, Pleasure, Fie! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII JKJKLL HMHMNN OHOHCC

Fie pleasure fie thou cloyest me with delightA
Thou fill'st my mouth with sweetmeats overmuchB
I wallow still in joy both day and nightA
I deem I dream I do I taste I touchB
No thing but all that smells of perfect blissC
Fie pleasure fie I cannot like of thisC
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To taste sometimes a bait of bitter gallD
To drink a draught of so 'u r ale some seasonE
To eat brown bread with homely hands in hallD
Doth much increase men's appetites by reasonE
And makes the sweet more sugar'd that ensuesF
Since minds of men do still seek after newsF
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The pamper'd horse is seldom seen in breathG
Whose manger makes his grace oftimes to meltH
The crammed fowl comes quickly to his deathG
Such colds they catch in hottest haps that sweltH
And I much like in pleasure scawled stillI
Do fear to starve although I feed my fillI
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It might suffice that Love hath built his bowerJ
Between my lady's lively shining eyesK
It were enough that beauty's fading flowerJ
Grows ever fresh with her in heavenly wiseK
It had been well that she were fair of faceL
And yet not rob all other dames of graceL
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To muse in mind how wise how fair how goodH
How brave how frank how courteous and how trueM
My lady is doth but inflame my bloodH
With humours such as bid my health adieuM
Since hap always when it is clomb on highN
Doth fall full low though erst it reach'd the skyN
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Lo pleasure lo lo thus I lead a lifeO
That laughs for joy and trembleth oft for dreadH
Thy pangs are such as call for change's knifeO
To cut the twist or else to stretch the threadH
Which holds yfeer the bundle of my blissC
Fie pleasure fie I dare not trust to thisC

George Gascoigne



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