Most worthy comfort,now my greatest griefe, Thou best of deerest,and mine onely care, Art left the prey of euery vulgar theefe. Thee haue I not lockt vp in any chest, Saue where thou art not,though I feele thou art, Within the gentle closure of my brest, From whence at pleasure thou maist come and part,    And euen thence thou wilt be stolne I feare,    For truth prooues theeuish for a prize so deare. 49

A Gainst that time ( if euer that time come ) When I shall see thee frowne on my defects,

When as thy loue hath cast his vtmost summe, Cauld to that audite by aduis'd respects, Against that time when thou shalt strangely passe, And scarcely greete me with that sunne thine eye, When loue conuerted from the thing it was Shall reasons finde of setled grauitie. Against that time do I insconce me here Within the knowledge of mine own desart, And this my hand,against my selfe vpreare, To guard the lawfull reasons on thy part,    To leaue poore me,thou hast the strength of lawes,    Since why to loue,I can alledge no cause. 50

H Ow heauie doe I iourney on the way, When what I seeke (my wearie trauels end)

Doth teach that ease and that repose to say Thus farre the miles are measurde from thy friend. The beast that beares me,tired with my woe, Plods duly on,to beare that waight in me, As if by some instinct the wretch did know His rider lou'd not speed being made from thee: The bloody spurre cannot prouoke him on, That some-times anger thrusts into his hide, Which heauily he answers with a grone,

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