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Reade heere (sweet Mayd) the story of my wo,

The drery abstracts of my endles cares,

With my liues sorow enterlyned so;

Smok'd with my sighes, and blotted with my teares:

The sad memorials of my miseries,

Pend in the griefe of myne afflicted ghost;

My liues complaint in doleful Elegies,

With so pure loue as tyme could neuer boast.

Receaue the incense which I offer heere,

By my strong fayth ascending to thy fame,

My zeale, my hope, my vowes, my praise, my prayer,

My soules oblation to thy sacred name:

Which name my Muse to highest heauen shal raise

By chast desire, true loue, and vertues praise.