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The teares or lamentations of a sorrowfull Soule

Set foorth by Sir William Leighton

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If labour tyre thee.

Behold, Lord my humillity,
and eke my labour doe respect:
Forgiue my faults continually,
wherein my duty I neglect:
Let neither time nor labour tyre,
my thoughts to serue thee with desire.