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ecause I Oft in darke abstracted guise *( >ciSS^'*^^^'^ ^Seeme most alone in greatest companie, ^^With dearth of words, or answers quite awrie,.To them that would make speech of speech arise ;They deeme, and of their doome the rumour flies, pCfl'pA'**^.That poison foule of bubling prid e doth lie y77 AcJ^*^ So in my swelling breast, that only I I Fawne on me selfe, and others do despise. .Yet pride I thinke doth not my soule possesse- ^j^k p\<^ . *'(Which looks too oft in his unflattring glasse) / fli-^i In* i*^"But one worse fault, Ambition, I confesse, — 'That makes me oft my best friends overpasse,Unseene, unheard, while thought to highest place f ' "^^ ^' Bends all his powers, even unto Stella^s grace. •? r. ..is.i- 28 ASTROPHEL AND STELLA, \ XXVIII. ■\
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