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[O, Stealing tyme, the Subject of Delay]
O, Stealing tyme, the Subject of Delay,
Delay the rack of unrefraynde Desyer,
What straunge desyer, haste thow my hopes to stay?
My hopes whiche doo but to myne owne aspyer.
Delay the rack of unrefraynde Desyer,
What straunge desyer, haste thow my hopes to stay?
My hopes whiche doo but to myne owne aspyer.
Myne owne (O worde) on whose sweete sounde dothe pray,
My greedy sowle, with grype of Inwarde fyer,
Thy title great I justly challenge may
Synce in suche phrase his faythe hee did attyer.
My greedy sowle, with grype of Inwarde fyer,
Thy title great I justly challenge may
Synce in suche phrase his faythe hee did attyer.
O Tyme become the Charyott of my Joyes?
As thow drawest on, so lett my Bliss drawe nere,
Eche Moment lost parte of my happ Destroyes,
Thow arte the Father of occasyon Deere,
Joyne with thy Sonne, to ease my Longe Annoyes.
In speedy help, thancke worthy freendes appeare.
As thow drawest on, so lett my Bliss drawe nere,
Eche Moment lost parte of my happ Destroyes,
Thow arte the Father of occasyon Deere,
Joyne with thy Sonne, to ease my Longe Annoyes.
In speedy help, thancke worthy freendes appeare.
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