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now no more, mine eyes, but be you drowned

In your own tears, so many years distilled.

And let her know that at them long hath frowned,

That you can weep no more although she willed;

This hap her cruelty hath her allotten,

Who whilom was commandress of each part;

That now her proper griefs must be forgotten

By those true outward signs of inward smart.

For how can he that hath not one tear left him,

Stream out those floods that are due unto her moaning,

When both of eyes and tears she hath bereft him?

O yet I'll signify my grief with groaning;

True sighs, true groans shall echo in the air

And say, Fidessa, though most cruel, is most fair!