The Works in Verse and Prose (including hitherto unpublished Mss.) of Sir John Davies: for the first time collected and edited: With memorial-introductions and notes: By the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart. In three volumes |
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[LOVE-LINES.]
Stay lovely boy! why flyest thou meethat languish in theis flames for thee?
I'me black 'tis true—why so is night,
yet louers in darke shades delight:
the whole World, doe but close thyne eye
will appeare as black as I;
or open'd view but what a shade
is by thyne owne fayre body made,
that follows thee where ere thou goe:
Ah, who alow'd would not doe so?
Lett mee for euer dwell so nigh,
and thou shalt need no shade but I.
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