'Twixt Love and Hope I have fool'd out my age;

Henceforth, ere sue to thee for my redress,

I'll woo the wind, or court the wilderness;

And buried from the day's discovery,

Study a slow yet certain way to die.

My woful monument shall be a cell,

20The murmur of the purling brook my knell;

My lasting epitaph the rock shall groan:

Thus when sad lovers ask the weeping stone,

What wretched thing does in that centre lie?