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William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910.

The Vow

Sir Edward Sherburne (1618–1702)

BY my life I vow,

That my life art thou,

By my heart and by my eyes,

But thy faith denies

To my juster oath t’ incline,

For thou say’st I swear by thine.

By this sigh I swear,

By this falling tear,

By the undeservèd pains

My griev’d soul sustains:

Now thou may’st believe my moan,

These are too too much my own.