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Introductory: Go, wailing verse! the infant of my love |
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If so it hap the offspring of my care |
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These sorrowing sighs, the smokes of mine annoy |
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The only bird alone that Nature frames |
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Tears, vows and prayers gain the hardest hearts |
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V. |
Why doth my mistress credit so her glass |
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These amber locks are those same nets, my Dear! |
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Behold what hap Pygmalion had, to frame |
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VIII. |
Oft and in vain my rebel thoughts have ventured |
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Reign in my thoughts! fair hand! sweet eye! rare voice! |
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X. |
The sly Enchanter, when to work his will |
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XI. |
Restore thy treasure to the golden ore! |
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XII. |
The tablet of my heavy fortunes here |
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XIII. |
My Cynthia hath the waters of mine eyes |
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XII. |
If a true heart and faith unfeigned |
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XV. |
Since the first look that led me to this error |
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XVI. |
Weigh but the cause! and give me leave to plain me |
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XVII. |
Whilst by her eyes pursued, my poor heart flew it |
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XVIII. |
Look in my griefs! and blame me not to mourn |
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XIX. |
Happy in sleep; waking, content to languish |
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XX. |
If Beauty bright be doubled with a frown |
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XXI. |
Come Death! the anchor hold of all my thoughts |
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XXII. |
If this be love, to draw a weary breath |
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XXIII. |
My years draw on my everlasting night |
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XXIV. |
The star of my mishap imposed my paining |
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XXV. |
To hear the impost of a faith not feigning |
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XXVI. |
I once may see, when years may wreck my wrong |
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XXVII. |
Raising my hope on hills of high desire |
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Canto primo: Hark all you ladies that do sleep!—Anonymous |
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Canto secundo: What fair pomp have I spied of glittering Ladies—Anonymous |
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Canto tertio: My love bound me with a kiss—Anonymous |
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Canto quarto: Love whets the dullest wits, his plagues be such—Anonymous |
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Canto quinto: A day, a night, an hour of sweet content—Anonymous |
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Megliora spero: Faction that ever dwells in Court where wit excels by Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford |
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Conclusion: If floods of tears could cleanse my follies past—Anonymous |
