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Philistus farewell to false Clorinda.

Clorinda false adiew, thy loue torments me:
Let Thirsis haue thy hart, since he contents thee.
Oh greefe and bitter anguish,
For thee I languish,
Faine I (alas) would hide it,
Oh, but who can abide it?
I can, I cannot I abide it.
Adiew, adiew then,
Farewell,
Leaue my death now desiring:
For thou hast thy requiring.
Thus spake Philistus, on his hooke relying:
And sweetly fell a dying.