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VIII. VERSES MADE BY (THE) EARL OF ESSEX IN HIS TROUBLE.
The ways on earth haue paths and turnings known;The ways on sea are gone by needle's light;
The birds of the air the nearest way have flown,
And under earth the moles do cast aright;
A way more hard than these I needs must take,
Where none can teach, nor no man can direct;
Where no man's good for me example makes,
But all men's faults do teach her to suspect.
Her thoughts and mine such disproportion haue;
All strength of love is infinite in me;
She useth the advantage time and fortune gave
Of worth and power to get the liberty.
Earth, sea, heaven, hell, are subject unto laws,
But I, poor I, must suffer and know no cause.
R. E. E.
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