_Louely Lady I long full sore to heare,
If ye remaine the same, I left you last yeare._
To whom she answered in _allegorie_ other two verses:
_My louing Lorde I will well that ye wist,
The thred is spon, that neuer shall untwist._
Meaning, that her loue was so stedfast and constant toward him as no time
or occasion could alter it. _Virgill_ in his shepeherdly poemes called
_Eglogues_ vsed as rusticall but fit _allegorie_ for the purpose thus:
_Claudite iam riuos pueri sat prata biberunt._
Which I English thus:
_Stop up your streames (my lads) the medes haue drunk ther fill._
As much to say, leaue of now, yee haue talked of the matter inough: for
the shepheards guise in many places is by opening certaine sluces to water
their pastures, so as when they are wet inough they shut them againe: this
application is full Allegoricke.
Ye haue another manner of Allegorie not full, but mixt, as he that wrate
thus:
_The cloudes of care haue coured all my coste,
The stormes of strife, do threaten to appeare:
The waues of woe, wherein my ship is toste.
Haue broke the banks, where lay my life so deere.
Chippes of ill chance, are fallen amidst my choise,
To marre the minde that ment for to reioyce._
I call him not a full Allegorie, but mixt, bicause he discouers withall
what the _cloud, storme, waue_, and the rest are, which in a full
allegorie should not be discouered, but left at large to the readers
iudgement and coniecture.
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