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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Thus with embraces and exhorting other:
With teare-dew'd kisses that had powre to smother
Their soft and ruddy lips close ioyn'd with either,
That in their deaths their soules might meet together:
With prayers as hopefull as sincerely good,
Expecting death they on the Cliffes edge stood,
And lastly were (by one oft forcing breath)
Throwne from the Rocke into the armes of death.
With teare-dew'd kisses that had powre to smother
Their soft and ruddy lips close ioyn'd with either,
That in their deaths their soules might meet together:
With prayers as hopefull as sincerely good,
Expecting death they on the Cliffes edge stood,
And lastly were (by one oft forcing breath)
Throwne from the Rocke into the armes of death.
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