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The Whole Works of William Browne

of Tavistock ... Now first collected and edited, with a memoir of the poet, and notes, by W. Carew Hazlitt, of the Inner Temple

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The Glasse of Time had well-nye spent the Sand
It had to run, ere with impartiall hand
Iustice must to her vpright Ballance take him:
Which he (afraid it might too soone forsake him)
Began to vse as quickly as perceiue,
And of his Loue thus tooke his latest leaue: