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A Margarite of America

By T. Lodge

Lodge, Thomas (1558?-1625)

[dedication]

[section]

Humanæ Miseriæ discursus.

PIETATI.

[With Ganimede now ioines the shining sunne]

[O curions Gem how I enuie each while]

CAZON.

[Vertue is dead, and here she is enshrined]

Domus doloris.

[Thine age and wastfull tempests thee.]

[Iudge not my thoughts, ne measure my desires]

[I smile to see the toies]

[I pine away expecting of the houre]

[I see a new sprung sunne that shines more cleerely]

[Teares, cares, wrongs, griefe feele I]

[I see with my hearts bleeding]

[When as my pale to her pure lips vnited]

[Euen at the brinke of sorrowes ceasles streames]

[Heape frowne on frowne, disdaine vpon disdaine]

[Those glorious lampes that heauen illuminate]

[O shadie vales, O faire inriched meades]

[Twixt reuerence and desire, how am I vexed?]

[Not so much borrowed beautie hath the starres]

Margaritaes Epitaph.

Dianaes Epitaph.

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[I see with my hearts bleeding]

I see with my hearts bleeding,
Thus hourely throgh my pain my life desires,
I feele the flames exceeding,
That burne my heart by vndeserued fires.
But whence these fires haue breeding,
I cannot finde though great are my desires.
O miracle eterne!
That thus I burne in fire, and yet my fire cannot disceern.