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Certaine Sonnets, adioyned to the amorous Poeme of Dom Diego and Gineura
  
  

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Sonnet XIIII.

[Whē broad-fac'd riuers turne vnto their foūtains]

Whē broad-fac'd riuers turne vnto their foūtains
and hungry Wolues deuoured are by Sheep,
When Marine Dolphins play on snow-tipt Mountains
& foule-form'd Beares do in ye Ocean keep,
Then shall I leaue to loue, and cease to burne
in these hot flames wherein I now delight,
But this I knowe, the Riuers ne're returne,
nor silly Sheep with rauening Wolues dare fight,
Nor Dolphins leaue the Seas, nor Beares the woods,
for Nature bids them all to keepe their kind,
Then eyes, rayne forth your ouer-swelled floods,
till drowned in such Seas may make you blind:
Then (harts delight) sith I must loue thee euer,
Loue me againe, and let thy loue perseuer.