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That thy fable gender mak'st

With the breath thou giv'ft and tak'st, 'Mongst our mourners shalt thou go.

Here the anthem doth commence .

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Reason, in itself confounded,
Saw divifion grow together;
To themselves yet either neither,
Simple were fo well compounded,

That it cried, how true a twain,
Seemeth this concordant one!
Love hath reason, reason none,
If what parts can fo remain.

Whereupon it made this threne
To the phoenix and the dove,
Co-fupremes and stars of love,
As chorus to their tragic scene.

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ROM off a hill whofe concave womb re-worded

Fo painful for front a filtering vale,

My spirits to attend this double voice accorded,
And down I lay to lift the fad-tun'd tale :
Ere long efpy'd a fickle maid full pale,
Tearing of papers, breaking rings a-twain,
Storming her world with forrow's wind and rain.

Upon her head a platted hive of straw,
Which fortify'd her visage from the fun,

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Whereon the thought might think fometime it faw 10
The carcafe of a beauty ipent and done.
Time had not scythed all that youth begun,
Nor youth all quit; but, fpite of heaven's fell rage,
Some beauty peep'd through lattice of fear'd age.

Oft did fhe heave her napkin to her eyne,
Which on it had conceited characters,
Laund'ring the filken figures in the brine
That feafoned woe had pelleted in tears,
And often reading what contents it bears;
As often fhrieking undiftinguifh'd woe,
In clamours of all size, both high and low.

Sometimes her level'd eyes their carriage ride,
As they did battery to the spheres intend;
Sometimes diverted their poor balls are ty'd
To the orbed earth; fometimes they do extend
Their view right on; anon their gazes lend
To every place at once, and no where fix'd,
The mind and fight diftractedly commix'd.
Her hair, nor loose, nor ty'd in formal plait,
Proclaim'd in her a carelef's hand of pride;

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For fome, untuck'd, defcended her fheav'd hat,

Hanging her pale and pined cheek befide;

Some in her threaden fillet ftill did bide,

And, true to bondage, would not break from thence, Though flackly braided in loofe negligence.

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