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

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Sonnet XXIIII.
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 XXXIIII. 
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 XXXVI. 
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Sonnet XXIIII.

[When leaden-harted sleepe had shut mine eyes]

When leaden-harted sleepe had shut mine eyes,
and close o'redrawn their windolets of light,
Whose watrynes the fire of griefe so dries,
that weep they could no longer, sleep they might,
Mee thought, I sunke downe to a poole of griefe,
and thē (me thought) such sinking much did please me
But when I downe was plung'd past all reliese,
with flood-fill'd mouth I call'd ye some wold ease me
Whereat (me thought) I saw my deerest loue,
(fearing my drowning) reach her hand to mine,
VVho pull'd so hard to get me vp aboue,
that with the pull sleepe did forsake mine eyne:
But when awakt I sawe t'was but a dreame,
I wisht t'had slept and perrisht in that streame,