Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. 1845.
Complaining of His Want of FriendsLII. Edward Hake
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And silently complain’d;
The cares that on me crept
All hope of sleepe restrain’d,
I cried on my chaunce,
Will none stand in the gap?
Will none my state advance?
My want that never dies,
My state that never mends,
My soule that ever cries;
That warpeth up my death;
All these presage my doome,
The losse of later breath.
That worldly joy excels,
That helpeth all annoy,
And worldly woe expels?
So shall those woes extinguisht be.