567Eternal numbers to out-liue long date.
568 If my
slight Mu
se doe plea
se the
se curious daies,
569The paine be mine,
but thine
shal be the prai
se.
571OH how thy worth with manners may I
singe,
572When thou art all the better part of me?
573What can mine owne prai
se to mine owne
selfe bring;
574And what is't but mine owne when I prai
se thee,
575Euen for this,
let vs deuided liue,
576And our deare loue loo
se name of
single one,
577That by this
seperation I may giue:
578That due to thee which thou de
seru'
st alone:
579Oh ab
sence what a torment would
st thou proue,
580Were it not thy
soure lei
sure gaue
sweet leaue,
581To entertaine the time with thoughts of loue,
582Which time and thoughts
so
sweetly do
st deceiue.
583 And that thou teache
st how to make one twaine,
584By prai
sing him here who doth hence remaine.
586TAke all my loues,
my loue,
yea take them all,
587What ha
st thou then more then thou had
st before?
588No loue,
my loue,
that thou mai
st true loue call,
589All mine was thine,
before thou had
st this more:
590Then if for my loue,
thou my loue receiue
st,
591I cannot blame thee,
for my loue thou v
se
st,
592But yet be blam'd,
if thou this
selfe deceaue
st 593B y wilfull ta
ste of what thy
selfe refu
se
st.
594I doe forgiue thy robb'rie gentle theefe
595Although thou
steale thee all my pouerty:
596And yet loue knowes it is a greater griefe
597To beare loues wrong,
then hates knowne iniury.
598 La
sciuious grace,
in whom all il wel
showes,
599Kill me with
spights yet we mu
st not be foes.
601THo
se pretty wrongs that liberty commits,
602When I am
some-time ab
sent from thy heart,
Thy
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