Renaissance Literature (Poetry)

Name : Nurasiah Hilmi

NPM : 06211210284

Class : IV/B

Subject : FOUNDATION OF LITERATURE

Tittle : When I was Young and Fair

Author : Elizabeth

City Publish : British

Year : 1533-1603

Publisher : Web Development Group, Information Technology Services

When I was Young and Fair

When I was fair and young, and favor graced me,

Of many was I sought their mistress for to be.

But I did scorn them all, and said to them therefore,

"Go, go, go, seek some otherwhere; importune me no more."

How many weeping eyes I made to pine in woe;

How many sighing hearts I have not skill to show,

But I the prouder grew, and still this spake therefore:

"Go, go, go, seek some otherwhere; importune me no more."

Then spake fair Venus' son, that brave victorious boy,

saying: You dainty dae, for that you be so coy,

I will so pluck your plumes as you shall say no more:

"Go, go, go, seek some otherwhere; importune me no more."

As soon as he had said, such change grew in my breast

That neither night nor day I could take any rest.

Wherefore I did repent that I had said before:

"Go, go, go, seek some otherwhere; importune me no more."

Summary :

This poetry stories about a dainty dame. She is so coy. And she pined in woe. There are many men who want to be her mistress. But she always scorned them all, and she always said to them therefore "go, go, go, seek some other where; importune me no more". At the ed she met fair Venus’ son, the brave victorious boy. And she repented that she had said before.