The Works in Verse and Prose of Nicholas Breton For the First Time Collected and Edited: With Memorial-Introduction, Notes and Illustrations, Glossarial Index, Facsimilies, &c. By the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart. In Two Volumes |
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30. [Fascination.]
Looke not to longe vpon thes lookes, that blindes the ouerlooker sore,And if you speake, speake not to muche, lest speaking once thou speak no more;
Thinke not, but what it is to thinke, to reach beyond the reach of thought,
And if yow doe do what you can when yow haue done yow can do nought;
But if yow see against yor will, looke but awaie and be not slaine,
And if a word goe vnawares, with care it may be calde againe;
And for a thought, it is no hurte, except it growe vnto a thinge
But end that hath bene done, is onlie conquest for a kinge;
But since in the, O sillie wretch, both sight, and speche, and thought, and deede,
By reason of a wronge conceyte, do but thine owne confusion breede;
Shutt vp thine eies, seale vp thie tongue, locke vp thy thoughtes, lay down thy head,
And let thy mistres see by this how loue hath stroke her servant dead;
And that but in her heavnlie eye, her word, her thought and only will
Doth rest the deede to kill the quite or ells [to salve and] cure this ill.
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