THB NSW LIFE
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anifest in sighs, that had among them thename of that most gracious creature, and howshe departed from us. Also it would cometo pass very often, through the bitter anguishof some one thought, that I forgot both it,and myself, and where I was. By this increaseof sighs, my weeping, which before had beensomewhat lessened, increased in like manner;so that mine eyes seemed to long only fortears and to cherish them, and came at lastto be circled about with red as though theyhad suffered martyrdom: neither were theyable to look again upon the beauty of anyface that might agadn bring them to shameand evil : from which things it will ^>pear thatthey were fitly guerdoned for their unstead-fastness. Wherefore I ( wishing that mineabandonment of all such evil desires and vaintemptations should be certified and mademanifest, beyond all doubts which might havebeen suggested by the rhymes af orewritten )proposed to write a sonnet wherein I shouldexpress this purport. And I then wrote,"Woe's me I" / said, ** fVae's me!" hicame I was asbamsdof ib$ trifling of tmns ef$s. This sonnet I donot divide, since its purport is manifest enough.
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