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Rh Hoist not your sailes no more in winde,

Least that some rocke, you chaunce to finde,

or else be driuen to Lybia land,

whereas the Barque may sinck in sand.

You students all that present be,

To view my fatall destinie,

would God I could requite your pain,

wherein you labour, although in vain,

if mightie God would think it good,

to spare my life and vitall blood,

For this your profered curtesie,

I would remaine most stedfastly,

Your seruant true in deed and word,

But welcome death as please the Lord.

Yea welcome death, the end of woe,

And farewell life, my fatall foe:

Yea welcome death, the end of strife,

Adue the care of mortall life,

For though this life doth fleet away,

In heauen I hope to liue for ay:

A place of ioy and perfect rest,

Which Christ hath purchaste for the best:

Til that we meet in heauen most hiest:

Adue, farewell in Iesu Christ.

He ofter that I view and see,

That plesant face and faire beautie,

whereto my heart is bound:

The neer my Mistresse is to me,

My health is farthest off I see:

and fresher is my wound:

Like as the flame doth quench by fire,

or streams consume by raigne,

So doth the sight that I desire,

appease my grief and paine: