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<T LOVERS COMPLAINT><L 1><P K1v> ((Printed after the Sonnets, 1609 edn.))
<Z A Louers complaint.
{BY}
WILLIAM SHAKE-#SPEARE.>
From off a hill whose concaue wombe reworded,
A plaintfull story from a sistring vale
My spirrits t'#attend this doble voyce accorded,
And downe I laid to list the sad tun'd tale,
Ere long espied a fickle maid full pale
Tearing of papers breaking rings #a twaine,
Storming her world with sorrowes, wind and raine.
Vpon her head a plattid hiue of straw,
Which fortified her visage from the Sunne,
Whereon the thought might thinke sometime it saw
The carkas of a beauty spent and donne,
Time had not sithed all that youth begun,
Nor youth all quit, but spight of heauens fell rage,
Some beauty peept, through lettice of sear'd age.
Oft did she heaue her Napkin to her eyne,
Which on it had conceited charecters:
Laundring the silken figures in the brine,
That seasoned woe had pelleted in teares,
And often reading what contents it beares:
As often shri . . .
