My sprits returnd,[1510] and then I thus begon:

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“O Sorrow, alas, sith Sorrow is thy name,

And that to thee this drere doth well pertayne,

In vayne it were to seeke to cease the same:

But, as a man himselfe with sorrow slayne,

So I, alas, doe comfort thee in payne,

That here in sorrow art forsunke so deepe,

That at thy sight I can but sigh and weepe.”

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