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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ON MR. FRANCIS LEE OF THE TEMPLE, GENT.
Nature haueing seen the Fates
Give some births vntimely dates,
And cut of those threds (before
Halfe their web was twisted ore)
Which she chiefly had intended
With iust story should be friended,
Vnderhand shee had begun,
From those distaffes half-way-spun,
To haue made a piece to tarry,
As our Edward should, or Harry.
Give some births vntimely dates,
And cut of those threds (before
Halfe their web was twisted ore)
Which she chiefly had intended
With iust story should be friended,
Vnderhand shee had begun,
From those distaffes half-way-spun,
To haue made a piece to tarry,
As our Edward should, or Harry.
But the fatall Sisters spyeing
What a fair worke she was plying,
Curstly cut it from the Loome,
And hid it vnderneath this Tombe.
What a fair worke she was plying,
Curstly cut it from the Loome,
And hid it vnderneath this Tombe.
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