The Works of William Fowler Secretary to Queen Anne, Wife of James VI. Edited with introduction, appendix, notes and glossary by Henry W. Meikle |
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VI.
O most vnhappie and accursed wightto prayse her most who doith me most disgrace,
or her extoll that by her pryde and slight
dois circumvene me by a snaring face!
and yet in all my greiffs and cairfull cace,
plundged in the poole of payne and wheil of woe,
by loving and by lothed verse I prease
to eternise her prayse who paynes me soe
shee, obiect, maks me obiects all forgoe
which may displace or yet resent disdaynes;
shee, subiect, subiect not, as wyld as roe
or any hynde that in the woddes remaynes,
dothe mak me of my self with shame reherse
that I am first in love as last in verse.
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