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14. Flye from the world.


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       Flye from the world O fly thou poor distrest,
       Where thy diseased sence infectes thy soule 
       And wher thy thoghts do multiply vnrest,
       Trobling with wishes what they straight controule
       O worlde, O worlde betrayers of the mind,
       O thoughts, O thoughts that guide vs being blinde.

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       Come therefore Care Conduct me to my end,
       And steere this shipwracke Carcase to the graue:
       My sighes a strong and stedfast wind will lende,
       Teares wet the sayles, repentance from rockes saue.
       Haile death, hayle death, the land I do descry,
       Strike sayle, go soule, rest followes them that dye.
    


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