A garden of graue and godlie flowers Sonets, elegies, and epitaphs. Planted, polished, and perfected: By Mr. Alexander Gardyne |
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To the defunct his spouse.
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A garden of graue and godlie flowers | ||
To the defunct his spouse.
Deere fruitefull vine, alone to languish left,Let not thy clusters, through thy care decay,
Though raging Death hes by all reason reft,
And out of time, hes hint thy heid away,
Take thou on Thee, to be the staffe and stay,
And beare thair birth, and all, the load alone,
That both aliue, in loue togidder ay,
You to this houre, haue gladly vndergone,
Through mourning much; and out of measure moue,
No not thy selfe, nor put in perill those,
To whom thou must, be All, and th'only one.
(Except the Lord,) to place in the repose,
Wherefore praise God, and take in patience this,
Thy husbands death, from bail brought to his blis.
A garden of graue and godlie flowers | ||