 | The Poeticall Essayes of Alexander Craige |  |
THE MOST VERTVOVS and accomplished Prince ANNA, Queene of Britane, Fraunce, and Ireland; Complaineth the absence of her Lord and Spous IAMES, King of the foresayd Realmes.
Where habit was, dwels sad Priuation now,And I am made an Orphane from delight:
To want the sweete fruition of thy sight,
In balefull bed my body when I bow,
Yea neither can I tell, nor can ye trow,
How blacke alace and noysome is each night,
Nor yet how loathsome is this common light,
Since absence made diuorse twixt mee and you.
I am thy Phæbæ, thou my Phæbus faire:
I haue no light nor life, but lent from thee,
Curst then be absence, causer of my care,
Which makes so long this loath'd eclipse to bee.
What woonder I through lake of presence pine?
Worm's haue alace their Sunne, and I want mine.
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