311.14
Ah gentle knight, whose deepe +conceiued+ griefe
2 Well seemes t'exceede the powre of patience,
Yet if that heauenly grace some good reliefe
4 You send, submit you to high prouidence,
And euer in your noble hart prepense,
6 That all the sorrow in the world is lesse,
Then vertues might, and values confidence,
8 For who nill bide the burden of distresse,
Must not here thinke to liue: for life is wretchednesse.
1 conceiued > cenceiued 1596
1 "Ah gentle knight, whose deep conceived grief
gentle > noble
2 Well seems to exceed the power of patience; 3 Yet if that heavenly grace some good relief 4 You send, submit you to high providence,
You send > [Should send to you] you > (An intensive: cf. 100.2:9; or: yourself)
5 And ever in your noble heart prepense
prepense > consider beforehand
6 That all the sorrow in the world is less 7 Than virtue's might, and value's confidence,