The Poems of Henry Howard Earl of Surrey: Frederick Morgan Padelford: Revised Edition |
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9 IN ABSENTIA
The fansy which that I haue serued long,That hath alway bene enmy to myne ease,
Seemed of late to rue vpon my wrong
And bad me flye the cause of my misease.
And I forthwith dyd prease out of the throng,
That thought by flight my painful hart to please
Som other way, tyll I saw faith more strong.
And to my self I sayd: “Alas! those dayes
In vayn were spent, to runne the race so long.”
And with that thought I met my guyde, that playn
Out of the way wherin I wandred wrong
Brought me amiddes the hylles in base Bullayn;
Where I am now, as restlesse to remayn,
Against my will, full pleased with my payn.
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