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Distrest Parthenia! Into what estate
Hath fortune, and the direfull hand of Fate
Driuen thy perplexed soule? O thou, O thou,
That wert the president of all ioyes, but now;
Now turn'd th'example of all misery,
For torments worse then death to practise by!
How lesse then nothing art thou? and how more
Then miserable! Thou that wert before
All Ladies of the earth for happinesse
But very now; (ah me) now, nothing lesse!
O angry heauens; what hath Parthenia done,
To be thus plagu'd, or why not plagu'd alone
If guilty? what shall poore Parthenia doe?
To whom shall she complaine? alas! or who
Shall giue reliefe? nay who can giue reliefe
To her, that hopes for succour from her griefe?
O death! Must we be parted then? for euer?
And neuer meet againe? what, neuer? neuer?
Or shall Parthenia now be so vnkinde,
Te leaue her Argalus, and stay behind?
No, no, my dearest Argalus, make roome,
(There's roome enough in heauen) I come, I come.
Hath fortune, and the direfull hand of Fate
Driuen thy perplexed soule? O thou, O thou,
That wert the president of all ioyes, but now;
Now turn'd th'example of all misery,
For torments worse then death to practise by!
How lesse then nothing art thou? and how more
Then miserable! Thou that wert before
All Ladies of the earth for happinesse
But very now; (ah me) now, nothing lesse!
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To be thus plagu'd, or why not plagu'd alone
If guilty? what shall poore Parthenia doe?
To whom shall she complaine? alas! or who
Shall giue reliefe? nay who can giue reliefe
To her, that hopes for succour from her griefe?
O death! Must we be parted then? for euer?
And neuer meet againe? what, neuer? neuer?
Or shall Parthenia now be so vnkinde,
Te leaue her Argalus, and stay behind?
No, no, my dearest Argalus, make roome,
(There's roome enough in heauen) I come, I come.
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