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Against Time.

SONNET.

Goe traytor Time and authorize my wrong,
My wrack, my woe, my wayting on bewray
Look on my heart which by thy shifts so long
Thou tyranniz'd with Treason to betray
My hopes are fled, my thoughts are gone astray
And sencelesse I haue sorrow in such store
That paine it selfe to whom I am a pray
Of mee hath made a martred man and more.
Go, go then Time, I hatefull thee implore,
To memorize my sad and matchlesse mone
Whilst thy deceipts by death I shall decore
My losse of life shall make them known each one,
So (I poore I) I sing with Swan-like song,
Go traytor Time and Authorize my wrong.
FINIS.