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MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS.
HAWTHORNDEN, xi.]
XXV. (a)
F. 67 a. 2 Jun. l6lO.
Houers suif[t]lye Comes, yea, dayes with thame draues yeares,
and teares and fyres aryse with plaints and paine,
hopes but al hap with houpless cairful feares,
grace with disgrace which doeth al loyes restraine.
Fraud and deceate comes also with vaine scorne, 5
suspitious, vyld, hatchd in capricious thought,
Conceates inconstant, oathes faithles, falslyie suorne,
speache, spyte, prose, rymes, which folyie bred and brought.
Yea, these inkblotted lynes and measeurs groue
as heade or hand ar by Invention led : 10
but, o you fates, to help to harme not sloue,
from you nothing to better me is sped!
my hopes decay, from you no ioyes aryse,
whils yow my faithe and mereits iust despyse.
6. MS, haechd.
MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS.
HAWTHORNDEN, xi.]
XXV. (a)
F. 67 a. 2 Jun. l6lO.
Houers suif[t]lye Comes, yea, dayes with thame draues yeares,
and teares and fyres aryse with plaints and paine,
hopes but al hap with houpless cairful feares,
grace with disgrace which doeth al loyes restraine.
Fraud and deceate comes also with vaine scorne, 5
suspitious, vyld, hatchd in capricious thought,
Conceates inconstant, oathes faithles, falslyie suorne,
speache, spyte, prose, rymes, which folyie bred and brought.
Yea, these inkblotted lynes and measeurs groue
as heade or hand ar by Invention led : 10
but, o you fates, to help to harme not sloue,
from you nothing to better me is sped!
my hopes decay, from you no ioyes aryse,
whils yow my faithe and mereits iust despyse.
6. MS, haechd.
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| Description | Edited with introduction, appendix, notes, and glossary, by Henry W. Meikle. Edinburgh: Printed for the Society by W. Blackwood and Sons, 1914-40. 3 volumes. This is Volume 1 only. Volumes 2-3 are part of the Third series. |
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