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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Here staid his tongue, and teares anew began.
“Parting knowes more of griefe then absence can,”
And with a backward pace and lingring eye
Left, and for euer left, their company.
By this the curs'd Informer of the deede
With wings of mischiefe (and those haue most speed)
Vnto the Priests of Pan had made it knowne;
And (though with griefe enough) were thither flown
With strict command the Officers that be
As hands of Iustice in her each decree.
Those vnto iudgement brought him: where, accus'd
That with vnhappy hand he had abus'd
The holy Tree, and by the oath of him
Whose eye beheld the separated limb,
All doubts dissolu'd, quicke iudgement was awarded,
(And but last night) that hither strongly guarded
This morne he should be brought, & from yond rock
(Where euery houre new store of mourners flocke)
He should be head-long throwne (too hard a doome)
To be depriu'd of life, and dead, of toombe.
“Parting knowes more of griefe then absence can,”
And with a backward pace and lingring eye
Left, and for euer left, their company.
By this the curs'd Informer of the deede
With wings of mischiefe (and those haue most speed)
Vnto the Priests of Pan had made it knowne;
And (though with griefe enough) were thither flown
With strict command the Officers that be
As hands of Iustice in her each decree.
Those vnto iudgement brought him: where, accus'd
That with vnhappy hand he had abus'd
The holy Tree, and by the oath of him
Whose eye beheld the separated limb,
All doubts dissolu'd, quicke iudgement was awarded,
(And but last night) that hither strongly guarded
This morne he should be brought, & from yond rock
(Where euery houre new store of mourners flocke)
He should be head-long throwne (too hard a doome)
To be depriu'd of life, and dead, of toombe.
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