Let all, that sweet is, void; and all, that may augment

My dole, draw near! More meet to wail my woe

Be the wild woods, my sorrows to resound,

Than bed, nor bower, both which I fill with cries,

When I them see so waste, and find no part

"Of pleasure past. Here will I dwell apart

In gastful grove therefore, till my last sleep

Do close mine eyes; so shall I not augment

With sight of such as change my restless woe.

Help me, ye baneful Birds! whose shrieking sound