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But if she shall attend what fortunes sequeld
The naufrage of my poore afflicted barke,
Then tell, but tell in words vnsillabled,
In sighs vntuned accents moue her to harke
Vnto the tenor of thy sadder processe:
Say then his teares (his hearts intelligencers)
Did intimate the grieues did him possesse,
Crying, Zepheria vnto thee these messengers
I send, oh these my loues my faith shall witnesse:
Oh these shall record loues and faith vnfayned,
Looke how my soule bathes in their innocencie,
Whose dying confidence him designes vnstayned
Of guiltie blush note of impuritie,
Oh death high way to life, when loue 'is disdayned.
This sayd, if cruell she no grace voutsafe,
Dead, may her graues stone be her Epitaph

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