Dissolued lye, as though our dayes were donne."

The whilst I speake, my soule is fleeting[°] hence,

And life forsakes his fleshie[°] residence.

Staie, staie sweete ioye, and leaue me not forlorne

Why shouldst thou fade that art but newelie borne?

"Staie but an houre, an houre[°] is not so much:

But half an houre; if that[°] thy haste is such,

Naie, but a quarter—I will aske no more—

That thy departure (which torments me sore),

Maie be alightned with a little pause[°],