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Eleg. 18.
[When as the first sad rumour fill'd mine eare]
When as the first sad rumour fill'd mine eareOf Henries sicknesse; an amazing terrour
Struck through my body with a shuddring feare,
Which I expounded but my frailties errour.
For though a quick misdoubting of the worst,
Seem'd to foretell my soule what would ensue:
God will forbid, thought I, that such a curst
Or ill presaging thought should fall out true:
It cannot sink into imagination,
That He whose future glories we may see
To be at least all Europes expectation,
Should in the prime of age despoiled be;
For if a Hope so likely nought avail us,
It is no wonder if all other fail us.
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