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Page 19 - So deep funck downe in my poore hart. I would full faine forgo my holde, My free eftate by wit to folde. As birde alurde in winters fore, On limed twigges that often bee, Thinkes he is free as late before, Untill he fayes his flight to flee, He cries, he flies, in vaine he tries On twigge in bondage there he lies. So I by lure of thy good grace, That thought my hart at libertie : Was wrapt vnwares by featurde face With moft extreme captiuitie. A Beautie hath me bondman made, By loue fmcere that fhall...
Page 12 - DEATH. " Yea, till thy Love restore thy heart again ! " X. Were Love a Fire, my tears might quench it lightly ; Or were it Water, my hot heart might dry it. If Air, then might it pass away more slightly ; Or were it Earth, the world might soon descry it. If Fire nor Water, Air nor Earth it be ; What then is it, that thus tormenteth me ? XI. To paint her outward shape and gifts of mind, It doth exceed my wit and cunning far.