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Sonnets. 3.
[From two strong Iailes thy corps & soul's acquitted]
From two strong Iailes thy corps & soul's acquitted,The one compact of flesh, and bloud and bone:
The other vnrelenting sencelesse stone,
By God to one, by man to one committed.
I euer did expect a happy time,
When thou shouldst shake thy bondage from thy backe:
I euer hop'd that thy vnwilling crime
Would be forgot, and thou secur'd from wracke.
For this I wish'd and prai'd both day and night:
I onely aym'd to haue thy body freed,
But heau'n, (beyond my reason) had decreed,
Soule, body, both at once to free thee quite.
Thou in thy life hast past a world of trouble,
But death from double Iailes hath freed thee double.
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