Parthenophil and Parthenophe Sonnettes, Madrigals, Elegies and Odes [by Barnabe Barnes] |
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SONNET XXVII.
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SONNET XXVII.
[Why do I draw this coole releeuing ayer]
Why do I draw this coole releeuing ayerAnd breathe it out in scaulding sighes as fast?
Since all my hopes dye buried in dispayer
In which hard soyle mine endlesse knottes be cast:
Where when I come to walke be soundry mazes
With bewties skilfull finger lyned out,
And knottes whose borders set with double dazes,
Doubles my dazed muse with endlesse doubt
How to finde easie passage through the time
VVith which my mazes are so long beset,
That I can neuer passe but fall and clyme
According to my passions which forget
The place where they with loues guide should haue met:
But when faint-wearied all me thinkes is past
The maze returning makes me turne as fast.
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