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hat Love called me and said to me thesewords : ** I come from that lady who was solong thy surety; for the matter of whosereturn, I know that it may not be. Where-fore I have taken that heart which I madethee leave with her, and do bear it untoanother lady, who, as she was, shall be thysurety;'' (and when he named her I knewher well.) <<And of these words I havespoken if thou shouldst speak any again, letit be in such sort as that none shall perceivethereby that thy love was feigned for her,which thou must now feign for smother."And when he had spoken thus, all myimagining was gone suddenly, for it seemedto me that Love became a part of myself: sothat, changed as it were in mine aspect, Irode on full of thought the whole of thatday, and with heavy sighing. And the daybeing over, I wrote this sonnet : — A DAY agone, as I rode sullenly Upon a certidn path that liked me not, I met Lore midway while the idr was hot,Clothed lightly as a wayfarer might be.And for the cheer he showed, he seemed to me As one fi^o hath lost Icmlsh^ he had got ; Advandng tow*rds me full of sorrowf al thought,Bowing his f (»ehead so that none should seeThen as I went, he called me by my name,
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