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[Hail my Delight! whom I so well lov'd here]

Hail my Delight! whom I so well lov'd here,
Do now love there and will love every where.
I hope you do not doubt my faith: For I
Know I adore you so I daily die.
When you was here my passion was so great,
That I did bow and sink down under it:
But now y'are gone my Love is so extreme,
I am distracted: when your happy name
I think upon, your beauty, Goodness, all
What you include, I into madness fall;
Rave at these days that do divide us two,
At these slow hours that keep me from you.
Thus I affect: would you did love me so,
That when we meet there might not pass a No.
Tell me how doth that richest jewel, your
Unkindest heart against all love endure?
Although Diana's Charms environ round,
And circle it, to keep it from a wound;
Yet Cupids Dart hath greater force then those,
And when he please can peirce it with his throws.
And I will make such prayers to him, that he
Shall be reveng'd (unto the height) for me:
If's ears be not deaf as his eyes be blind,
I'le make him hear me, and he'l make you kind.
You cannot (fairest Maid) your Fate remove:
Yield therefore not by force, but will to love.