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# THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM
But colde December dwelleth in her heart;
Blest be the months, that sets my thoughts on fire,
Accurst that Month that hindreth my desire.¹
In Greene’s second tract, *Alcida*, the verses beginning:
Beauty is vaine, accounted but a flowre,
Whose painted hiew fades with the summer sunne.²
adumbrate Jaggard’s thirteenth poem:
Beauty is but a vaine and doubtful good...
A flower that dies when first it ’gins to bud.³
Again, the ironical advice to the wooer, which constitutes Jaggard’s poem XVIII, is little more than a repetition of passages in two poems in the six-lined stanza, which were already in print.
¹ Greene’s Works, ed. Grosart, vii. 90.
² Ib. ix. 87.
³ There are endless Elizabethan poems in the six-lined stanza which are in sentiment and phrase as well as metre hardly distinguishable from this effort of *The Passionate Pilgrim*. The stanza numbered xxxiii in the ‘Sonnets’ appended to J. C.’s *Alcilia*, which appeared in 1595, runs:
Though thou be fair, think Beauty but a blast!
A morning’s dew! a shadow quickly gone!
A painted flower, whose colour will not last!
Time steals away, when least we think thereon.
Most precious time! too wastefully expended;
Of which alone the sparing is commended.
Cf. the sonnet attributed to Surrey in *Tottel’s Miscellany* (p. 10), headed ‘The frailtie and hurtfulness of beautie’, which opens:
Brittle beautie, that nature made so fraile,
Wherof the gift is small, and short the season.
In Davison’s *Poetical Rhapsody* (1602) was first printed ‘An invective against love’, which contains the stanza:
Beauty the flower so fresh, so fair, so gay,
So sweet to smell, so soft to touch and taste,
As seems it should endure, by right, for aye,
And never be with any storm defaced;
But when the baleful southern wind doth blow,
Gone is the glory which it erst did show.
Davison assigns this poem to the unidentified contributor ‘A. W.’, and it was appropriated by the publisher of the second edition of *England’s Helicon* (1614).
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