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Specimens of English literature from the 'Ploughmans crede' to the ...

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zHH XXIV. THOMAS SACKVILLE, LORD BUCKHURST.:19 I strecht my-selfe, and strayt my hart reuiues,That dread and dolour erst did so appale,Lyke him that with <strong>the</strong> feruent feuer stryves,When sickenes seekes his castell health <strong>to</strong> skaleWith ga<strong>the</strong>red spirites so forst I feare <strong>to</strong> auale.And rearing her with anguishe all fordone,INIy spirits returnd, and <strong>the</strong>n I thus begonne.20'O Sorrowe, alas, sith Sorrowe is thy name,And that <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong>e this drere doth well pertayne,In vayne it were <strong>to</strong> seeke <strong>to</strong> ceas <strong>the</strong> same :But, as a man hym-selfe with sorrowe slayne,So I, alas ! do comfort <strong>the</strong>e in payne,That here in sorrowe art forsonke so depe,That at thy sight I can but sigh and wepe.'21 I had no sooner spoken <strong>of</strong> a stike,But that <strong>the</strong> s<strong>to</strong>rme so rumbled in her brestAs Eolus could neuer roare <strong>the</strong> like,And showers downe rayned <strong>from</strong> her iyen so fast,That all bedreynt <strong>the</strong> place, tillat <strong>the</strong> lastWeil eased <strong>the</strong>y <strong>the</strong> dolour <strong>of</strong> her minde.As rage <strong>of</strong> rayne doth swage <strong>the</strong> s<strong>to</strong>rmy wynde.22 For furth she paced in her fearfuU tale :'Cum, cum,' (quod she) andsee ' >yhat_I shall shewe ;Cum heare <strong>the</strong> playning, and <strong>the</strong> bytter baleQf worthy men, by Fortune ouerthrowe.Cum thou and see <strong>the</strong>m rewing al in rowe.They were but shades that erst in minde thou rolde,Cum, cum with me, thine iyes shall <strong>the</strong>m beholde/

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