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45. A Troubled Lover's Apostrophe to Death

O Dethe whylum dysplesant to nature
Where duellyst þow wylte thou þin man forsake
Com on and se thow wofull creature
That haþe his herte vnto a lady take
That woll his deþe & lyst no pese to make
Cum & helpe the petuys man to ende
In the lythe all here ys non odere ffrende