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Wittes Pilgrimage

(by Poeticall Essaies): Through a VVorld of amorous Sonnets, Soule-passions, and other Passages, Diuine, Philosophicall, Morall, Poeticall, and Politicall. By Iohn Davies
Davies, John (1565?-1618)
  
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To the Right noble, and Highly honored Lord Phillip Herbert, Earle of Mountgomery and Baron of Shurland. &c.
  
Againe, To the same truelie-noble Earle, and his most honorable other halfe Sir Iames Haies knight, &c.
  
The Booke to Grauitie.
  
The Author to his Muse.
  
Of my selfe.
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Other Sonnets vpon other Subiects.
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In praise of Poesie.
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5. Sonnets in ppaise of Emincacy or a publike Life.
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Essaies vpon certaine Sentences.
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Other Essayes vpon more serious and sacred Subiects.

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[Time, faster then my Thought away doth hast]

Time , faster then my Thought away doth hast;
Who thought not to haue lost It, but for gaine:
But, as that thought was present, Time was past;
So, left mee but to thinke that Thought was vaine.
While I am musing how my Time to spend,
Time spends It selfe, and me: but how, I muse!
So, still I muse, while Time drawes on mine ende:
Thus; Time doth me, and I do it abuse.
I thinke, and while I thinke, I id'ly, acte:
(Yet Thought's no idle action of the Minde)
So, idle actions Time, and mee haue wrackt
Yet, in these Ruines, I my making finde:
For, I am made, by musing, what I am
That's one that lynes the Ornaments of Fame.
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