English Poetry. Edmund Spenser. Sonnet 50. Long Languishing In Double Malady. Эдмунд Спенсер.

Edmund Spenser (Эдмунд Спенсер)

Sonnet 50. Long Languishing In Double Malady

LOng languishing in double malady,
of my harts wound and of my bodies greife:
there came to me a leach that would apply
fit medicines for my bodies best reliefe.
Vayne man (quod I) that hast but little priefe:
in deep discouery of the mynds disease,
is not the hart of all the body chiefe?
and rules the members as it selfe doth please.
Then with some cordialls seeke first to appease,
the inward languour of my wounded hart,
and then my body shall haue shortly ease:
but such sweet cordialls passe Physitions art.
Then my lyfes Leach doe you your skill reueale,
and with one salue both hart and body heale. 

Edmund Spenser’s other poems:

1. Sonnet 81. Fayre Is My Loue, When Her Fayre Golden Heares
2. Sonnet 58. By Her That Is Most Assured To Her Selfe
3. Sonnet 60. THey That in Course of Heauenly Spheares Are Skild
4. Sonnet 53. THe Panther Knowing That His Spotted Hyde
5. Sonnet 38. ARion, When Through Tempests Cruel Wracke

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