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7. Cease troubled thoughts to sigh.


                      1 
       Cease troubled thoughts to sigh, or sigh your selues to death,
       Or kindle not my griefe, or coole it with your breath:
               Let not that spirit which made me liue
               Seeke thus vntimely to depriue
                      Mee of my life
                      Vnequall strife,
               That breath which gaue mee beeing
               Should hasten mee to dying.

                      2 
       Cease melting tears to streame, stop your vncessant course,
       Which to my sorrowes childe are like a fruitfull Nurse,
               From whence death liuing, comfort drawes,
               And I my selfe appeare the cause
                      Of all my woe,
                      But tis not so :
               For she whose beautie won mee,
               By falshood hath vndone mee.
    

 

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