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XXV(b) 2 Iunii. 1610. Houers comes apace, and dayes with thame draues yeares
Houers comes apace, and dayes with thame draues yeares,
and flamms and fyres aryse with plaints and paine,
hopes as desyres with caire and causles feares
disteats disgrace which dothe all ioyes restraine.
fraud and deceate comes also with vaine scorne,
suspitious, vylde, with mad capricious thoughts,
Conceates Inconstant, Vniustlyie, falslyie borne,
speache, spyte, prose, rymes, which folyie hatchd and wrought;
And these inkblotted lynes and sillabs groue
as heade or hand ar by Invention led.
But, o you parkes and faites, to succour sloue,
from you nothing to better me is sped!
my hopes decay, from yow no helps aryse,
which trewe deserts and hoped happes despyse.
and flamms and fyres aryse with plaints and paine,
hopes as desyres with caire and causles feares
disteats disgrace which dothe all ioyes restraine.
fraud and deceate comes also with vaine scorne,
suspitious, vylde, with mad capricious thoughts,
Conceates Inconstant, Vniustlyie, falslyie borne,
speache, spyte, prose, rymes, which folyie hatchd and wrought;
And these inkblotted lynes and sillabs groue
as heade or hand ar by Invention led.
But, o you parkes and faites, to succour sloue,
from you nothing to better me is sped!
my hopes decay, from yow no helps aryse,
which trewe deserts and hoped happes despyse.
Mortalibus eripior vt Immortalibus reddar.
Haec moribundus gemibunde scripsi.
Haec moribundus gemibunde scripsi.
3 Junii.
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