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Muses Gardin for
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8.How many new yeeres


                   1 
       How many new yeeres haue grow'n old,
       Since first your seruant old was new,
       How many long howers haue I told,
       Since first my loue was vow'd to you,
               And yet alas, shee doth not know
               Whether your seruant loue or no.

                   2 
       How many wals as white as Snow,
       And windowes cleere as any glasse,
       Haue I coniur'd to tell you so,
       Which faithfully performed was,
               And yet you'l sweare you do not konw,
               Whether your seruant loue or no.

                   3 
       How often hath my pale leane face,
       With true Characters of my loue,
       Petitioned to you for grace,
       Whom neither sighs nor teares can moue,
               O cruell yet doe you not know,
               Whether your seruant loue or no.

                   4 
       And wanting oft a better token,
       I haue beene faine to send my heart,
       Which now your cold disdaine hath broken,
       Nor can you healt by any art,
               O looke vpon't and you shall know,
               Whether your seruant loue or no.
    
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