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A Lover's Complaint

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      From off | a hill | whose^con|cave womb re|worded,
           ,        ,       ,       ,    2      ,
      A plaint|ful sto|ry from | a sis|tering vale
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      My spirits | to attend | this doub|le voice | accorded,
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      And down | I laid | to list | the sad-tuned tale,
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      Ere long | espied | a fickle | maid full pale
        ,           ,         ,         ,         ,
      Tearing | of pap|ers, break|ing rings | a twain,
        ,              ,           ,          ,          ,
      Storming | her world | with sor|rows, wind | and rain.
     
        ,          ,        ,        ,         ,
      Upon | her head | a plat|ted hive | of straw,
             ,      ,         ,        ,         ,
      Which for|tified | her vis|age from | the sun,
           ,           ,              ,          ,         ,
      Whereon | the thought | might^think | sometime | it saw
           ,      2    ,        ,           ,     oo
      The car|cass of beaut|y spent | and done, |
        ,         T      T    T           ,        ,
      Time had | not scythed all | that youth | begun,
            ,      T    T    .    T      .   Tx       T    T
      Nor youth | all quit; but spite | of heaven's fell rage,
             ,        ,               ,               ,    ,
      Some^beaut|y peeped | through* lat|tice of / seared age.
     
       ,              ,          ,       ,         ,
      Oft did | she heave | her nap|kin to | her eyne,
             ,       ,         ,       ,      ,
      Which^on | it had | conceit|ed char|acters:
        ,   2           ,       ,        ,         ,
      Laundering | the silk|en fig|ures in | the brine,
            ,         ,         ,     ,         ,
      That seas|oned woe | had pel|leted | in tears,
           ,       ,              ,   ,           ,
      And oft|en read|ing what / contents | it bears:
          ,        ,        ,      ,          ,
      As oft|en shriek|ing un|disting|uished woe,
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      In clam|ors of / all size | both high and low.
     
             ,          ,          ,           ,          ,
      *Sometimes | her lev|elled eyes | their car|riage ride,
           ,         ,    2   ,          ,         ,
      As they | did bat|tery to | the spheres | intend:
             ,        ,                ,    ,          ,
      *Sometime | divert|ed their / poor balls | are tied,
        2     ,        ,           ,           ,       ,
      To the orb|ed earth;| *sometimes | they do | extend,
              ,           ,     ,           ,       ,
      Their view | right^on;| anon | their gaz|es lend,
          ,       ,          ,         ,          ,
      To eve|ry place | at once | and no|where* fixed,
            ,          ,          ,      ,        ,
      The mind | and sight | distract|edly | commixed.
     
            ,          ,           ,        ,        ,
      Her hair,| nor loose | nor tied | in form|al plat,
            ,          ,        ,         ,         ,
      Proclaimed | in her | a care|less hand | of pride;
            ,         ,         ,               ,     ,
      For some,| untucked,| descend|ed her / sheaved hat,
        ,             ,         ,       ,         ,
      Hanging | her pale | and pin|ed cheek | beside,
        ,              ,       ,        ,           ,
      Some in | her thread|en fil|let still | did bide,
            ,         ,        ,           ,             ,
      And true | to bond|age would | not^break | from thence,
               ,         ,            ,    ,      ,
      Though slack|ly braid|ed in / loose neg|ligence.
     
          ,        ,        ,        ,           ,
      A thous|and fav|ors from | a maund | she drew,
          ,        ,        ,         ,      ,
      Of am|ber, crys|tal, and | of bead|ed jet,
             ,        ,         ,      ,       ,
      Which^one | by one | she in | a riv|er threw,
        ,           ,        ,        ,         ,
      Upon | whose^weep|ing mar|gent she | was set,
            ,   ,      ,       ,        ,
      Like us|ury,| apply|ing wet | to wet,
          ,           ,           ,     T    Tx     T
      Or mon|arch's hands | that let | not bounty fall,  ??
             ,             ,          ,         ,          ,
      Where want | cries^some,| but where | excess | begs^all.
     
           ,       ,         ,         ,   2   ,
      Of fold|ed sched|ules had | she ma|ny a one,
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      Which^she | perused,| sighed, tore, and gave | the flood,
         ,          2    ,        ,        ,          ,
      Cracked *ma|ny a ring | of pos|ied gold | and bone,  ??
       ,               ,           ,      ,         ,
      Bidding | them find | their sep|ulchres | in mud,
             ,           ,        ,        ,          ,
      Found^yet | more* let|ters sad|ly penned | in blood,
              ,       ,      ,            ,     ,
      With sleid|ed silk | feat and | affect|edly
           ,              ,         ,    2   ,     ,
      Enswathed,|  and sealed | to cur|ious sec|recy.
     
             ,        ,      ,             ,        ,
      These^oft|en bathed | she in | her flux|ive eyes,
           ,        ,          ,       ,         ,
      And oft|en kissed,| and oft|en gave | to tear,
        T   T   T       T     T   T    3  3     ,
      Cried O false | blood thou reg|ister of lies,
            ,     ,      ,         ,           ,
      What un|approv|ed wit|ness dost | thou bear!
       ,                  ,       T     T   .    T       ,
      Ink would | have seemed | more black and damn|ed here!
             ,        ,         ,          ,           ,
      This^said,| in top | of rage | the lines | she rents,
           ,      ,          ,         ,          ,
      Big dis|content | so break|ing their | contents.
     
          ,        ,           ,           ,        ,
      A reve|rend man | that grazed | his cat|tle nigh,
           ,         ,    2     ,          ,       ,
      Sometime | a blust|erer that | the ruf|fle knew
           ,         ,      ,         ,         ,
      Of court,| of cit|y, and | had let | go* by
            ,         ,        ,       ,          ,
      The swift|est hours,| observ|ed as | they flew,
          ,              ,       ,       ,       ,
      Towards this | afflic|ted fan|cy fast|ly drew:
            ,      ,        ,        ,          ,
      And priv|ileged | by age | desires | to know
           ,            ,           ,        ,        ,
      In brief | the grounds | and mot|ives of | her woe.
     
           ,           ,      ,          ,       ,
      So slides | he down | upon | his grain|ed bat;
            ,      ,         ,        ,         ,
      And come|ly dis|tant sits | he by | her side,
            ,      ,        ,           ,     ,
      When he | again | desires | her, be|ing sat,
            ,          ,          ,       ,       ,
      Her griev|ance with | his hear|ing to | divide:
           ,          ,           ,         ,         ,
      If that | from him | there may | be aught | applied
             ,         ,    2     ,     ,       ,
      Which may | her suf|fering ecs|tasy | assuage
            ,        ,         ,    ,       ,
      Tis prom|ised in | the char|ity | of age.
     
       ,             ,           ,       ,       ,
      Father | she says, though in | me you | behold
           ,    ,       ,        ,         ,
      The in|jury | of ma|ny a blast|ing hour;
           ,         ,           ,       ,       ,
      Let^it | not^tell | your judg|ment I | am old,
           ,         ,       ,      ,          x
      Not^age,| but sor|row, ov|er me | hath power;
          ,         ,           ,         ,          x
      I might | as yet | have been | a spread|ing flower
        ,            ,       ,         ,       ,
      Fresh to | myself,| if I | had self-|applied
        ,           ,     .   T  T   T        ,
      Love to | myself,| and to no love | beside.
     
           ,        ,        ,     ,        x
      But woe | is me,| too^ear|ly I | attended
          ,         ,        ,         ,         ,
      A youth|ful suit | it was | to gain | my grace;
          ,         ,         ,         ,          x
      Of one | by* na|ture's out|wards so | commended,
            ,          ,          ,      ,          ,
      That maid|ens' eyes | stuck^ov|er all | his face,
        T     T   .   T               ,   ,          ,
      Love lacked a dwel|ling and / made him | her place,
            ,     .  T    T    T          ,      ,
      And when | in his fair parts | she did | abide,
           ,     T     T    .   T      ,    ,
      She was | new lodged and new|ly de|ified.
     
            ,       ,           ,         ,        ,
      His brown|y locks | did^hang | in crook|ed curls,
           ,       ,        ,       ,        ,
      And eve|ry light | occas|ion of | the wind
        ,          ,           ,       ,         ,
      Upon | his lips | their silk|en par|cels hurls,
               ,         ,       ,         ,       ,
      What's^sweet | to do,| to do | will apt|ly find,
            ,          ,         ,        ,           ,
      Each eye | that saw | him did | enchant | the mind:
           ,        ,       ,        ,        ,
      For on | his vis|age was | in lit|tle drawn,
             ,           ,         ,     ,          ,
      What large|ness thinks | in Par|adise | was sawn.
     
        T     T   .  T         ,       ,         ,
      Small show of man | was yet | upon | his chin,
            ,        ,       ,         ,      ,
      His phoe|nix down | began | but^to | appear
            ,   ,    ,                  ,         ,
      Like^un|shorn vel/vet on | that term|less skin
              ,            ,          ,          ,          ,
      Whose bare | out-bragged | the web | it seemed | to wear.
             ,          ,       ,          ,            ,
      Yet showed | his vis|age by | that cost | more* dear,
            ,        ,        ,    2     ,          ,
      And nice | affect|ions wav|ering stood | in doubt
           ,          ,       ,         ,        ,
      If best | were as | it was,| or best | without.
     
           ,     ,            ,    2    ,         ,
      His qual|ities | were beaut|eous as | his form,
            ,        ,          ,          ,        ,
      For maid|en-tongued | he was,| and there|of free;
       .   T  T    T           ,         ,        ,
      Yet^if men moved | him, was | he such | a storm
       .  T    T    T         ,      ,       ,
      As oft twixt May | and Ap|ril is | to see,
             ,        T      T     Tx       ,            ,
      When winds | breathe sweet, unru|ly though | they be.  ??
            ,        ,       2     ,     ,       ,
      His rude|ness so | with his auth|oriz|ed youth,
            ,       ,         ,       ,          ,
      Did live|ry false|ness in | a pride | of truth.
     
        ,               ,         ,      ,           ,
      Well could | he ride,| and of|ten men | would say
             ,          ,        ,         ,       ,
      That horse | his met|tle from | his rid|er takes
        ,            ,         ,      ,         ,
      Proud of | subjec|tion, nob|le by | the sway,
              ,            ,              ,            ,         ,
      What rounds,| what bounds,| what course,| what stop | he makes
            ,     ,       ,         ,         ,
      And cont|rover|sy hence | a ques|tion takes,
        ,             ,         ,        ,          ,
      Whether | the horse | by him | became | his deed,
         ,         ,         2       ,    ,       ,
      Or he | his man|age, by the / well-do|ing steed.
     
            ,       ,          ,         ,         ,
      But quick|ly on | this^side | the ver|dict went,
            ,     ,     T    T    T          ,
      His real | habi|tude gave life | and grace
          ,      ,        ,        ,    ,
      To ap|pertain|ings and | to orn|ament,
          ,          ,       ,      ,             ,
      Accomp|lished in | himself | not in | his case:
            ,          ,        ,    ,                  ,
      All^aids | themselves | made fair/er by | their place,
        ,           ,         ,           ,          ,
      Came for | addit|ions, yet | their pur|posed trim
         T    T   .    T                 ,     ,         ,
      Pieced not his grace | but were / all graced | by him.
     
          ,        ,        ,        ,        ,
      So^on | the tip | of his | subdu|ing tongue
       T    T    .  T     ,           ,         ,
      All kinds of arg|uments | and ques|tion deep,
           ,     ,         ,          ,         ,
      All rep|lica|tion prompt,| and reas|on strong
           ,       ,         ,           ,          ,
      For his | advant|age still | did wake | and sleep,
           ,          ,       ,           ,        ,
      To make | the weep|er laugh,| the laugh|er weep:
          ,         ,    ,         ,     2     ,
      He had | the di|alect | and dif|ferent skill,
        ,             ,         ,         ,          ,
      Catching | all pas|sions in | his craft | of will.
     
            ,        ,         ,       ,       ,
      That he | did^in | the gene|ral bos|om reign
           ,         ,         ,       ,          x
      Of young,| of old,| and sex|es both | enchanted,
           ,           ,           ,          ,      ,
      To dwell | with him | in thoughts,| or to | remain
          ,    2    ,      ,    2      ,             x
      In pers|onal du|ty, fol|lowing where | he haunted,
           ,          ,           ,       ,             x
      Consents | bewitched,| ere^he | desire | have granted,
           ,     ,          ,          ,          ,
      And di|alogued | for him | what^he | would say,
        ,            T    T    .    T            ,        ,
      Asked their | own wills and made | their wills | obey.
     
       ,             ,          ,         ,        ,
      Many | there were | that did | his pic|ture get
           ,             ,         ,       ,            ,
      To serve | their^eyes,| and in | it put | their mind,
        T    T     T      3   3  ,    ,       ,
      Like fools that | in the ima|gina|tion set  ??
            ,      ,         ,        ,            ,
      The good|ly ob|jects which | abroad | they find
           ,          ,            ,           ,           ,
      Of lands | and man|sions, theirs | in thought | assigned,
           ,    2          ,     ,        ,         x
      And lab|oring in / more pleas|ures to | bestow them,   ??
          2      ,     ,        T   T    T             x
      Than the true | gouty | landlord which | doth owe them.  ??
     
          ,      ,          ,        ,            ,
      So ma|ny have | that nev|er touched | his hand,
        ,            ,           ,         ,         ,
      Sweetly | supposed | them mist|ress of | his heart.
          ,        ,          ,         ,        ,
      My woe|ful self | that did | in free|dom stand,
           ,        ,     T    Tx     T         ,
      And was | my own | fee simple (not | in part)
        T    T   .   T         ,           ,         ,
      What with his art | in youth | and youth | in art
        ,           ,         ,         ,        x
      Threw my | affec|tions in | his charm|ed power,
           ,           ,           ,         ,         ,
      Reserved | the stalk | and gave | him all | my flower.
     
           ,       ,         ,       ,        ,
      Yet did | I not | as some | my e|quals did
          ,        ,          x        ,          x
      Demand | of him,| nor being | desir|ed yielded.
        ,           ,        ,      ,       ,
      Finding | myself | in hon|or so | forbid,
            ,       ,        ,         ,           x
      With saf|est dis|tance I | mine hon|or shielded,
         ,     ,         ,     2   ,              x
      Exper|ience | for me | many bul|warks* builded
       .    T    T    T         ,          ,           ,
      Of proofs new bleed|ing which | remained | the foil
       .   T    T     Tx     ,         ,         ,
      Of this false jewel,| and his | amor|ous spoil.
     
           ,        ,       ,           ,    ,
      But ah | who ev|er shunned | by pre|cedent,
           ,         ,          ,         ,       ,
      The des|tined ill | she must | herself | assay,
           ,        ,            ,          ,        ,
      Or forced | examp|les, 'gainst | her own | content
          ,     .   T   T   T       ,        ,
      To put | the by-past per|ils in | her way?
        ,    2        ,      ,            T   T    T
      Counsel may | stop a|while what | will not stay:
            ,         ,       ,         ,       ,
      For when | we rage,| advice | is oft|en seen
           ,        ,        ,          ,            ,
      By blunt|ing us | to make | our wits | more* keen.
     
            ,         ,     ,        ,         ,
      Nor gives | it sat|isfac|tion to | our blood,
            ,          ,           ,   ,        ,
      That we | must curb | it up/on oth|ers' proof,
          ,       ,           ,            ,          ,
      To be | forbod | the sweets | that seem | so* good,
            ,         ,             ,         ,        ,
      For fear | of harms | that preach | in our | behoof;
         ,     ,           ,         ,        ,
      O ap|petite | from judg|ment stand | aloof!
           ,       ,        ,           ,            ,
      The one | a pal|ate hath | that needs | will taste,
              ,        ,         ,        ,         ,
      Though reas|on weep | and cry | it is | thy last.
     
           ,       ,          ,           ,        ,
      For furth|er I | could say | This^man's | untrue,
            ,         ,         ,         ,       ,        o
      And knew | the pat|terns of | his foul | begui|ling,
        T     T    .     T         ,         ,         ,
      Heard where his plants | in oth|ers' orch|ards grew,
       T   T   .   T           ,      ,         ,       o
      Saw how deceits | were gild|ed in | his smil|ing,
              ,          ,      ,       ,      ,       o
      Knew* vows | were ev|er brok|ers to | defil|ing,    (hex with others)
         T      T .   T          ,       ,           ,
      Thought characters | and words | merely | but art,
           ,         ,         ,       ,    2     ,
      And bast|ards of | his foul | adul|terate heart.
     
            ,    . T    T     T         ,         x
      And long | upon these terms | I held | my city,
             ,        ,        ,          ,        ,
      Till thus | he gan | besiege | me: gent|le maid
            ,       ,     2     ,            ,        x
      Have^of | my suf|fering youth | some feel|ing pity
           ,        ,       ,      ,       ,
      And be | not of | my ho|ly vows | afraid,
              ,        ,          ,         ,      ,
      That's^to | ye sworn | to none | was ev|er said,
             ,          ,        ,            ,       ,
      For feasts | of love | I have | been called | unto
            ,          ,        ,         ,      ,
      Till now | did nere | invite | nor nev|er woo.
     
       ,          ,        ,       ,          ,
      All my | offen|ses that | abroad | you see
           ,       ,         ,       ,             ,
      Are er|rors of | the blood | none of | the mind:
             ,          ,          ,        ,         ,
      Love^made | them not,| with ac|ture they | may be,  ??
              ,        ,     ,         ,          ,
      Where neith|er part|y is | nor true | nor kind,
             ,              ,           ,           ,          ,
      They sought | their shame | that so | their shame | did find,
           ,          ,         ,         ,       ,
      And so | much^less | of shame | in me | remains,
          ,          ,        ,          ,          ,
      By how | much^of | me their | reproach | contains,
     
         ,         ,      ,           ,           ,
      Among | the ma|ny that | mine^eyes | have seen,
           ,            ,          ,          ,          ,
      Not one | whose flame | my heart | so much | as warmed,
          ,      ,        ,      2      ,         ,
      Or my | affec|tion put | to the smal|lest teen,
         ,     ,       ,         ,       ,
      Or an|y of | my leis|ures ev|er charmed,
        ,             ,         ,          ,           ,
      Harm have | I done | to them | but nere | was harmed;
             ,          ,    2     ,          ,          ,
      Kept^hearts | in liv|eries, but | mine^own | was free,
             ,          ,        ,        ,     ,
      And reigned | command|ing in | his mon|archy.
     
     
             ,           ,          ,      ,         ,        o
      Look^here | what trib|utes wound|ed fan|cies sent | me,
          ,        ,          ,       ,         ,
      Of pal|ed pearls | and rub|ies red | as blood:
       ,   2            ,           ,          ,         ,       o
      Figuring | that they | their pas|sions like|wise^lent | me   (hex with prev)
           ,           ,        ,      ,     ,
      Of grief | and blush|es, apt|ly und|erstood
           ,          ,      ,            ,          ,
      In blood|less white,| and the | encrim|soned mood,
          ,         ,              ,   ,     ,
      Effects | of ter|ror and / dear mod|esty,
           ,           ,           ,        ,       ,
      Encamped | in hearts | but fight|ing out|wardly.
     
           ,       ,           ,        ,           ,
      And lo | behold | these tal|ents of | their hair,
             ,       ,      ,   2  ,          ,
      With twist|ed met|al am|orously | impleached
          ,         ,           ,   2    ,        ,
      I have | received | from ma|ny a seve|ral fair,
              ,       ,           ,      ,        ,
      Their kind | accept|ance, weep|ingly | beseeched,
        ,           ,              ,    ,        ,
      With the | annex|ions of / fair gems | enriched,
       .    T     T     T         ,         ,     ,
      And deep-brained son|nets that | did amp|lify
        T     T      T      Tx      T    .    T    ,
      Each stone's dear | nature, worth and qual|ity.  ??
     
           ,          ,            ,     ,          ,
      The dia|mond?  Why | 'twas beaut|iful | and hard,
           ,     .   T   T    T      ,          ,
      Whereto | his invised prop|erties | did tend,
       .    T    T    T        ,           ,         ,
      The deep-green eme|rald in | whose fresh | regard,
        T     T     T       ,       ,   2       2   ,
      Weak sights their | sickly | radiance | do amend.
       .    Tx    T     T        ,         ,      ,
      The heaven-hued sapph|ire and | the op|al blend
            ,        ,     ,           ,        ,
      With ob|jects man|ifold;| each seve|ral stone,
        .   ,    ,    ,          ,          ,           ,
      With^wit well blaz|oned smiled | or made | some^moan.  ??
     
          ,            ,        ,      ,         ,
      Lo^all | these^troph|ies of | affec|tions hot,
          ,         ,         ,        ,             x
      Of pen|sived and | subdued | desires | the tender,
       ,               ,           ,        ,           ,
      Nature | hath charged | me that | I hoard | them not,
            ,           ,         ,       ,             x
      But yield | them up | where I | myself | must render:
            ,       ,        ,    ,          x
      That is | to you | my or|igin | and ender:
            ,          ,            ,       ,        ,
      For these | of force | must your | obla|tions be,
            ,          ,       ,       ,       ,
      Since^I | their^alt|ar, you | enpa|tron me.
     
          ,        ,          ,             ,          ,
      O then | advance |(of yours)| that phrase|less hand,
              ,       T      T   .   T      ,           ,
      Whose^white | weighs down the air|y scale | of praise,
            ,           ,    ,      2      ,        ,
      Take^all | these^sim|iles | to your own | command,
       ,                ,           ,         ,           ,
      Hallowed | with sighs | that burn|ing lungs | did^raise:
            ,         ,     ,         ,      ,
      What me | your min|ister | for you | obeys
             ,      ,         ,         ,       ,
      Works^un|der you,| and to | your aud|it comes
             ,    ,    ,                 ,       ,
      Their dis|tract par/cels, in | combin|ed sums.
     
       T   T   .  T          ,         ,       ,
      Lo this device | was sent | me from | a nun,
          ,        ,      ,        ,    2    ,
      Or sis|ter sanct|ified | of hol|iest note,
              ,         ,       ,         ,           ,
      Which late | her nob|le suit | in court | did shun,
             ,       ,         ,          ,         ,
      Whose^rar|est hav|ings made | the blos|soms dote,
           ,          ,            x           ,        ,
      For she | was sought | by spirits | of rich|est coat,
       .    T    T   T          ,           ,        ,
      But kept cold dis|tance, and | did thence | remove,
           ,          ,       ,      ,       ,
      To spend | her liv|ing in | etern|al love.
     
          ,        ,           ,       x          ,
      But O | my sweet | what la|bor is it | to leave,
            ,          ,     ,     ,            T   T     T
      The thing | we have | not, mast/ering | what not strives,
        ,             ,            ,         ,        ,
      Playing | the place | which did | no form | receive,
        ,        ,           ,         ,      ,         ___
      Playing | patient | sports in | uncon|strained | gyves,  (hex with prev)
       T    T   .    T         ,        ,         ,
      She that her fame | so* to | herself | contrives,
            ,         ,         ,       ,         ,
      The scars | of bat|tle 'scap|eth by | the flight,
            ,          ,        ,    2    ,         ,
      And makes | her ab|sence val|iant, not | her might.
     
         ,       ,        ,         ,          ,
      O pard|on me | in that | my boast | is true,
           ,     ,             ,          ,        ,
      The ac|cident | which brought | me to | her eye,
        ,         ,       ,          ,         ,
      Upon | the mo|ment did | her force | subdue,
           ,          ,          ,        ,       ,
      And now | she would | the cag|ed cloist|er fly:
         ,         ,         ,       ,         ,
      Reli|gious love | put^out | Reli|gion's^eye:
           ,        ,        ,          ,       ,
      Not^to | be tempt|ed would | she be | enured,
           ,         ,          ,     ,        ,
      And now | to tempt | all^lib|erty | procure.
     
            ,       ,         ,        ,         ,
      How migh|ty then | you^are,| O hear | me tell,
            ,      ,        ,        ,      ,
      The brok|en bos|oms that | to me | belong,
            ,        ,            ,         ,        ,
      Have emp|tied all | their fount|ains in | my well:
            ,        ,         ,       ,       ,
      And mine | I pour | your^o|cean all | among:
            ,      T    T    .   T          ,     2      ,
      I* strong | ore them, and you | ore* me | being strong,  ??
       ,           ,   ,             ,        ,
      Must for | your vict/ory | us all | congest,  ??
       .  T   T     T          x       T    T     T
      As compound love | to physic | your cold breast.  ??
     
           ,           x          ,        ,       ,
      My parts | had power | to charm | a sac|red sun,
           ,       ,        ,   ,         ,
      Who dis|ciplined | I di|eted | in grace,
           ,           ,           ,      2    ,       ,
      Believed | her eyes,| when they | to assail | begun,
            ,         ,      ,        ,        ,
      All vows | and con|secra|tions giv|ing place:
           ,       ,         ,    ,     ,          ,
      O* most | poten|tial love, vow, bond,| nor space  ????
           ,           ,        ,       ,              ,
      In thee | hath neith|er sting,| knot, nor | confine
            ,         ,          ,            ,          ,
      For thou | art all | and all | things^else | are thine.
     
             ,        ,           x       T   T     T
      When thou | impres|sest what are | precepts worth
           ,        ,         ,           ,        ,
      Of stale | examp|le?  When | thou wilt | inflame,
            ,       ,        ,             ,     ,
      How cold|ly those | imped|iments / stand forth
            ,           x       T    T     T        ,
      Of wealth | of filial | fear, law, kind|red fame,  ??
               ,         ,               ,              ,               ,
      Love's^arms| are peace,| gainst* rule,| gainst* sense,| gainst* shame
            ,        ,        ,     2     ,          ,
      And sweet|ens in | the suf|fering pangs | it bears,
           ,           ,   ,          ,           ,
      The al|oes of / all for|ces, shocks | and fears.
     
           ,             ,           ,        ,        ,
      Now^all | these hearts | that do | on mine | depend,
        ,            ,            ,          ,            ,
      Feeling | it break,| with bleed|ing groans | they pine;
           ,      ,             ,         ,        ,
      And sup|plicant | their sighs | to you | extend
           ,          ,    2    ,          ,              ,
      To leave | the bat|tery that | you make | gainst* mine,
        ,         ,   ,    2             ,         ,
      Lending | soft aud/ience to | my sweet | design,
           ,         ,     .   T     T     T       ,
      And cre|dent soul | to that strong-bond|ed oath,
             ,         ,         ,      ,         ,
      That shall | prefer | and und|ertake | my troth.
     
             ,         ,   2    ,        ,         ,
      This^said,| his wat|ery eyes | he did | dismount,
               ,            ,          ,         ,        ,
      Whose^sights | till then | were lev|elled on | my face,
        T    T   .  T      ,         ,        ,
      Each cheek a riv|er run|ning from | a fount,
             ,       ,         ,          ,        ,
      With brin|ish cur|rent down|ward flowed | apace:
          ,          ,       ,    .     T     T    T
      Oh how | the chan|nel to | the stream gave grace!
             ,            ,        ,          ,        x
      Who glazed | with crys|tal gate | the glow|ing roses,
             ,              ,        ,           ,          x
      That flame | through wat|er which | their hue | encloses,
     
          ,        ,        ,     .   T    T     T
      O fath|er, what | a hell | of witchcraft lies,
                 ,    ,        ,        ,    2    ,
      In the / small orb | of one | partic|ular tear?
            ,         ,    ,       ,         ,
      But with | the in|unda|tion of | the eyes:
            ,       ,         ,       ,          ,
      What roc|ky heart | to wat|er will | not wear?
              ,           ,          ,         ,       ,
      What breast | so* cold | that is | not warm|ed here,
           ,       Tx      T   T          ,    ,
      Or cleft | effect, cold mod|esty / hot wrath:
             ,           ,           ,        ,         ,
      Both^fire | from hence,| and chill | extinc|ture hath.
     
           ,         ,       ,        ,         ,
      For lo | his pass|ion but | an art | of craft,
             ,          ,         ,       ,      ,
      Eene there | resolved | my reas|on in|to tears,
        ,          T     T    .   T     ,        ,
      There my | white stole of chast|ity | I daffed,
             ,        ,        ,          ,       ,
      Shook^off | my so|ber guards | and civ|il fears,
          ,        ,        ,       ,       ,
      Appear | to him | as he | to me | appears:
       ,    ,                      ,           ,     2      ,
      All melt/ing, though | our drops | this dif|ference bore,
       T     Tx     T         ,         ,        ,
      His poisoned me,| and mine | did him | restore.  ??
     
          ,        ,     ,        ,         x
      In him | a plen|itude | of sub|tle matter,
           ,        ,         ,       T      T    .   T
      Applied | to cau|tels, all | strange forms receives,
           ,        ,        ,        ,        x
      Of burn|ing blush|es, or | of weep|ing water,
           ,         ,         ,         ,            ,
      Or swoon|ing pale|ness: and | he takes | and leaves,
          ,         ,        ,        ,         ,
      In eith|er's^apt|ness as | it best | deceives:
           ,           ,        ,         ,         ,
      To blush | at speech|es rank,| to weep | at woes
       ,        T    T    .    T          ,       ,
      Or to | turn white and swoon | at trag|ic shows.
     
            ,        ,            ,        ,       ,
      That not | a heart | which^in | his lev|el came,
           2   ,           ,     .  T   T    T       ,
      Could escape | the hail | of his all-hurt|ing aim,
        ,         ,   ,             T    T   .    T
      Showing | fair na/ture is | both kind and tame:
             ,          ,         ,          ,           ,
      And veiled | in them | did win | whom he | would maim,
          ,           ,           ,          ,         ,
      Against | the thing | he sought | he would | exclaim,
            ,           ,      .   T      T    T    ,
      When he | most burned | in heart-wished lux|ury,
       .    T       T    T     .     T      T    T     ,
      He preached pure maid,| and praised cold chast|ity.
     
             ,       ,         ,        ,       ,
      Thus mere|ly with | the gar|ment of | a grace,
           ,      ,         ,       ,         ,        o
      The nak|ed and | conceal|ed fiend | he cov|ered,
          2     ,    ,    2    ,          ,        ,
      That the un|exper|ient gave | the temp|ter place,
              ,        ,    ,       ,          ,        o
      Which like | a cher|ubin | above | them hov|ered,
            ,          ,        ,          ,       ,        o
      Who young | and simp|le would | not be | so lov|ered:    (hex with others)
           ,       ,         ,         ,         ,
      Ay* me | I fell,| and yet | do ques|tion make,
           ,           ,      ,          ,        ,
      What I | should do | again | for such | a sake.
     
           ,       ,        ,        ,        ,
      O* that | infec|ted mois|ture of | his eye,
      .    T    T     T           ,    .    T    T    T
      O* that false fire | which^in | his cheek so glowed:
      .    T     T     T        ,          ,          ,
      O* that forced thund|er from | his heart | did fly,
      .    T   T     T           ,       ,          ,
      O* that sad breath | his spon|gy lungs | bestowed,
         ,          ,         ,        ,        ,
      O all | that bor|rowed mo|tion seem|ing owed,
             ,       ,        ,          ,        ,
      Would yet | again | betray | the fore-|betrayed,
           ,        ,        ,     ,       ,
      And new | pervert | a rec|oncil|ed maid. 


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