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[Like as the Dove which seeled up doth flie]
Like as the Dove which seeled up doth flie,
Is neither freed, nor yet to service bound,
But hopes to gaine some helpe by mounting hie,
Till want of force do force her fall to ground.
Is neither freed, nor yet to service bound,
But hopes to gaine some helpe by mounting hie,
Till want of force do force her fall to ground.
Right so my minde caught by his guiding eye,
And thence cast off, where his sweete hurt he found,
Hath never leave to live, nor doome to dye,
Nor held in evill, nor suffered to be sound.
And thence cast off, where his sweete hurt he found,
Hath never leave to live, nor doome to dye,
Nor held in evill, nor suffered to be sound.
But with his wings of fancies up he goes,
To hie conceits whose fruits are oft but small,
Till wounded, blind, and wearied spirite, lose
Both force to flie and knowledge where to fall.
O happie Dove if she no bondage tried:
More happie I, might I in bondage bide.
To hie conceits whose fruits are oft but small,
Till wounded, blind, and wearied spirite, lose
Both force to flie and knowledge where to fall.
O happie Dove if she no bondage tried:
More happie I, might I in bondage bide.
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