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XVII. VPON MY LORD MORDENT HOROLOGE.
7 aug[u]st.
My mistres and this horloge be a lyke
in wheils, in signs, in hammer, brod and bell,
In paces, motions, in slownes not to stryke,
devyding tymes, and yet no tyme can tell:
these wheils dothe turne, and yet the marks not move
which gius apparance of approaching houers,
so doth her words so oft her promeis proves
as ferme as trees in showe but weake lyk flouers:
tuyse tuelf be signs depainted on this brod,
and tuyse tuelf tyme shee hath me tyme assynd
to mak al reknings euen which now ar od,
bot in these all I euer cum behind:
Thus losing tyme throgh an Inconstant [OMITTED]
I must observe the dyell of the [OMITTED]
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