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Elegia. 1. To the Echon.

O dolefull voice, that doost aunswer,
The weepings of my care:
And that heere in these mozie groues,
Hast pittie on my dolance,


And shall of whome she emptie mouth,
(At least) dooth make a semblaunce,
To feele my wounds that proceede of
Two eyes, to greene, and fayre.
O speake since thou canst not liue ex-
cept I shall giue the brethe:
And since my greeuous voice, is one-
lie the nurce of thy steme:
I crying Dian, why makest thou
Dye Iohn, aunswer agen:
Wouldst thou I lou'de no more,
Or doost thou Prophesie my death.
O noble Nymph tell mee, or doost
Thou now inflame againe,
With the antiqueus amor, that
Thou louedst so in vaine.
Or is it that remembring my
Loue, I should pittie thine.
For the like dollor that thou hadst,
Euen the like doo I suffer:
And the like amore that thou hadst,
The like to mee dooth offer:
Saue that thy loue was not so fayre,
Nor so cruelly as mine.