Loves martyr or, Rosalins complaint. Allegorically shadowing the truth of Loue, in the constant Fate of the Phoenix and Turtle. A Poeme enterlaced with much varietie and raritie; now first translated out of the uenerable Italian Torquato Caeliano, by Robert Chester. With the true legend of famous King Arthur, the last of the nine Worthies, being the first Essay of a new British Poet: collected out of diuerse Authenticall Records. To these are added some new compositions, of seuerall moderne Writers whose names are subscribed to their seuerall workes, upon the first Subiect: viz. the Phoenix and Turtle |
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Death shall take my life away,
Before my friendship shall decay.
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Death shall take my life away,
Before my friendship shall decay.
Death that heart-wounding Lord, sweet louers foe,
Shall lay his Ebone darts at thy faire feete,
Take them into thy hand and worke my woe,
My woe that thy minds anguish will regreet:
Life, hart, ioy, greeting and all my pleasure,
Away are gone and fled from my deare treasure.
Shall lay his Ebone darts at thy faire feete,
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My woe that thy minds anguish will regreet:
Life, hart, ioy, greeting and all my pleasure,
Away are gone and fled from my deare treasure.
Before one staine shal blot thy scarlet die,
My bloud shall like a fountaine wash the place,
Friendship it selfe knit with mortality,
Shall thy immortall blemish quite disgrace:
Decay shall all the world, my Loue in thee
Shall liue vnstain'd, vntoucht perpetually.
My bloud shall like a fountaine wash the place,
Friendship it selfe knit with mortality,
Shall thy immortall blemish quite disgrace:
Decay shall all the world, my Loue in thee
Shall liue vnstain'd, vntoucht perpetually.
Loves martyr | ||