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22. [Sonnet: Farewell to Life and Love]
I bid farewell into the world and thee,To the, because thou art Extreame vnkinde,
Vnto the world, because the world to me
Is nothing, since I cannott move thy minde.
Were any mercy in thy soule inshrin'd,
Could sighes or teares make soft thy flinty heart,
I could perhapps more easily be inclin'd
To spend my dayes with the then to depart.
But since thou knowes not Cupids golden dart,
But hath been wounded with a shaft of lead,
It is but folly to pretend his Art
To sue for favour, when I find but feade.
Soe farewell, Nimph, farewell for aye as now,
And wellcome death more mercifull then thou.
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