406HOw can I then returne in happy plight

407That am debard the benifit of rest?

408When daies oppression is not eazd by night,

409But day by night and night by day oprest.

410And each(though enimes to ethers raigne)

411Doe in consent shake hands to torture me,

412The one by toyle, the other to complaine

413How far I toyle, still farther off from thee.

414I tell the Day to please him thou art bright,

415And do'st him grace when clouds doe blot the heauen:

416So flatter I the swart complexiond night,

417When sparkling stars twire not thou guil'st th' eauen.

418 But day doth daily draw my sorrowes longer,

419And night doth nightly make greefes length seeme stronger

421WHen in disgrace with Fortune and mens eyes,

422I all alone beweepe my out-cast state,

423And trouble deafe heauen with my bootlesse cries,

424And looke vpon my selfe and curse my fate.

425Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,

426Featur'd like him, like him with friends possest,

427Desiring this mans art, and that mans skope,

428With what I most inioy contented least,

429Yet in these thoughts my selfe almost despising,

430Haplye I thinke on thee, and then my state,

431(Like to the Larke at breake of daye arising)

432From sullen earth sings himns at Heauens gate,

433 For thy sweet loue remembred such welth brings,

434That then I skorne to change my state with Kings.

436WHen to the Sessions of sweet silent thought,

437I sommon vp remembrance of things past,

438I sigh the lacke of many a thing I sought,

439And with old woes new waile my deare times waste:

440Then can I drowne an eye(vn-vs'd to flow)

441For precious friends hid in deaths dateles night,

442And weepe a fresh loues long since canceld woe,

443And mone th'expence of many a vannisht sight.

444Then can I greeue at greeuances fore-gon,

445And heauily from woe to woe tell ore

446The sad account of fore-bemoned mone,

447Which I new pay, as if not payd before.

448 But if the while I thinke on thee (deare friend)

449All losses are restord, and sorrowes end.