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Certaine Sonnets, adioyned to the amorous Poeme of Dom Diego and Gineura
  
  

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Sonnet XIX.
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Sonnet XIX.

[When night returnes backe to his vgly mantion]

When night returnes backe to his vgly mantion,
& cleer-fac'd morning makes her bright vprise,
In sorrowes depth, I murmur out his cantion,
(salt teares distilling from my dewy eyes)
O thou deceitfull Somnus God of Dreames,
cease to afflict my ouer-pained spright
VVith vayne illusions, and idle Theames,
thy spells are false, thou canst not charme aright,
For when in bed I thinke t'imbrace my loue,
(inchaunted by thy magique so to thinke)
Vaine are my thoughts, tis empty ayre I proue,
that still I waile, till watching make me winke:
And when I winke I wish I nere might wake,
But sleeping carryed to the Stigian Lake.