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[Since shunning paine, I ease can never find]
Since shunning paine, I ease can never find:
Since bashfull dread seekes where he knowes me harmed:
Since will is won, and stopped eares are charmed:
Since force doth faint, and sight doth make me blind.
Since bashfull dread seekes where he knowes me harmed:
Since will is won, and stopped eares are charmed:
Since force doth faint, and sight doth make me blind.
Since loosing long, the faster still I bind:
Since naked sence can conquer reason armed:
Since heart in chilling feare with yce is warmed:
In fine, since strife of thought but marres the mind,
Since naked sence can conquer reason armed:
Since heart in chilling feare with yce is warmed:
In fine, since strife of thought but marres the mind,
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I yeeld, ô Love, unto thy loathed yoke,
Yet craving law of armes, whose rule doth teach,
That hardly usde, who ever prison broke,
In justice quit, of honour made no breach:
Whereas if I a gratefull gardien have,
Thou art my Lord, and I thy vowed slave.
Yet craving law of armes, whose rule doth teach,
That hardly usde, who ever prison broke,
In justice quit, of honour made no breach:
Whereas if I a gratefull gardien have,
Thou art my Lord, and I thy vowed slave.
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