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ſagt er uns, daß ſein Herz ein Schiff iſt, das von der Grauſamkeit durch ſtürmiſche Meere und grauſame Klippen gelenkt wird. My galley charged with forgetfulness,„Tween rock and rock; and eke my foe, alas, Through sharp seas, in winter nights, doth pass That is my lord, steereth with cruelness. A. E. p. 10. Ein anderes Mal vergleicht er ſich mit einem ungeheuren großen Berge, der mit Wäldern bedeckt und mit Quellen, Vögeln, wilden Tieren, Felſen und Obſtbäumen angefüllt iſt.

Like unto these unmeasurable mountains For high be they, and high is my desire; So is my painful life, the burden of ire; And I of tears, and they be full of fountains. A. E. p„. 15.

Dieſelben unpaſſenden Gedanken finden wir auch ſpäter von Wyatt's Nachahmern verwendet. Like desert woods, with darksome shades obscured, Where dreadful beasts, where hateful horror reigneth, Such is my wounded heart, whom sorrow paineth. The trees are fatal shafts, to death inured That cruel Love within my breast main taineth,

To whet my grief, whereas my sorrow waineth,

The ghastly beasts, my thoughts in cares assured, Wich wage me war, whilest heart no succour gaineth. With false suspect, and fear that still remaineth.

The horrors, burning sighs, by cares procured,

Wich forth I send, whilst weeping eye complaineth, To cool the heat the healpless heart containeth.

But shafts, but cares, sighs, horrors unrecured

Were nought esteem'd, if, for these pains awarded, My faithful Love by you might be awarded. Nott. II. 543.

Und wenn er die Unruhen, die widerſtreitenden Hoffnungen und Gefahren, die der Liebenden Geiſt verwirren, ausdrücken will, dann verwendet er Ausdrücke, die eigentlich einen Widerſpruch in ſich ſchlißßen. So ſagt er: Er brennt und friert gleichzeitig; er fliegt oben in der Luft, doch kann er ſich nicht von der Erde erheben; er ſieht ohne Augen und ſpricht Klagen aus ohne Zunge.

I find no peace and all my war is done; And yet of death it giveth me occasion. I fear and hope, I burn, and freeze like ice; Without eye I see; without tongue I plain: I fly aloft, yet can I not arise; I wish to perish, yet I ask for health; And nought I have, and all the world I seize on, I love another, and thus I hate myself; That locks nor loseth, holdeth me in prison, I feed me in sorrow, and laugh in all my pain. And holds me not, yet can I scape no wise: So, thus displeaseth me both death and life, Nor lets me live, nor die, at my devise, And my delight is causer of this strife. A. E. pag. 9.

Surrey dagegen verſteht vortrefflich ſeine Vorlage nachzuahmen; in dem Sonett: Set me whereas the son doth parch the green, In lusty youth, or when my hairs are gray:

Or where his beams do not dissolve the ice; Let me in heaven, in earth, or else in hell,

In temperate heat, where he is felt and seen; In hill, or dale, or in the foaming flood;

In presence prest of people, mad, or wise; Thrall, or at large; alive whereso I dwell,

Set me in high, or yet in low degree; Sick, or in health, in evil fame or good

In longest night, or in the shortest day; Her's will I be; and only with this thought

In clearest sky, or where clouds thickest be; Content myself, although my chance be nought. A. E. pag. 16.

ſchildert er die Unendlichkeit der Liebe in gleicher Formenſchönheit wie das Original. Dieſes Sonett iſt eine Nachahmung Petrarcas(Sonett 113) unter gleichzeitiger Benutzung der horaziſchen Ode: Integer vitae etc. Od. I, 22. 2