The Faerie Queene ( Book 4.10) Edmund Spenser

CANTO X

Scudamour doth his conquest tell,
Of vertuous Amoret:
Great Venus Temple is describ’d,
And Louers life forth set.

T Rue he it said, what euer man it sayd,
That Loue with gall and hony doth abound,
But if the one be with the other wayd,
For euery dram of hony therein found,
A pound of gall doth ouer it redound.
That I too true by triall haue approued:
For since the day that first with deadly wound
My heart was launcht, and learned to haue Loued,
I neuer ioyed howre, but still with care was moued.

And yet such grace is giuen them from aboue,
That all the cares and euill which they meet,
May nought at all their setled mindes remoue,
But seeme gainst common sence to them most sweet;
As bosting in their martyrdome vnmeet.
So all that euer yet I haue endured,
I count as naught, and tread downe vnder feet,
Since of my Loue at length I rest assured,
That to disloyalty she will not be allured.