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 HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY 47 Description of Spring

Wherein each thing renews, save only the Lover

THE soote season, that bud and bloom forth brings, With green hath clad the hill and eke the vale The nightingale with feathers new she sings, The turtle to her make hath told her tale. Summer is come, for every spray now springs: The hart hath hung his old head on the palej The buck in brake his winter coat he flings; The fishes flete with new repaired scale. The adder all her slough away she slings; The swift swallow pursueth the flies smale; The busy bee her honey now she mings, Winter is worn that was the flowers' bale.

And thus I see among these pleasant things Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs.

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��48 Complaint of the Absence of Her Lover being upon the Sea

HAPPY dames! that may embrace The fruit of your delight, Help to bewail the woful case

And eke the heavy plight Of me, that wonted to rejoice The fortune of my pleasant choice: Good ladies, help to fill my mourning voice. 47 make] mate. mings] mingles, mixes.

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