THE FIRST BOOKE
OF AYRES

T h o m a s   M o r l e y

1600

1. A Painted tale.

       A Painted tale by Poets skill deuised,
       Where words well plast great store of loue profest.
       In loues attyre can neuer Maske disguysde,
       For looks and sighs true loue can best expresse,
       And he whose wordes his passions night can tell
       Doth more in wordes then in true loue excell.