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 SIR HENRY WOTTON

790 Upon the Death of Sir Albert

Morton's Wife

"E first deceased; she for a little tried

. To live without him, liked it not, and died.

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��SIR JOHN DA VIES 797 Man

KNOW my soul hath power to know all things, Yet she is blind and ignorant in all. I know I'm one of Nature's little kings, Yet to the least and vilest things am thrall.

I know my life 's a pain and but a span; I know my sense is mock'd in everything, And, to conclude, I know myself a Man Which is a proud and yet a wretched thing.

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��SIR ROBERT AYTON 792 To His Forsaken "Mistress

DO confess thou'rt smooth and fair, And I might have gone near to love thee, Had 1 not found the slightest prayer

That lips could move, had power to move thee; But I can let thee now alone As worthy to be loved by none.

I do confess thou'rt sweet, yet find

Thee such an unthrif t of thy sweets, Thy favours are but like the wind

That kisseth everything it meets:

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