Songes and sonettes, written by the right honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other

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Title: Songes and sonettes, written by the right honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other
Publication: [London] :: Apud Richardum Tottel. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum,; 1557.
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Request to his loue to ioyne bountie with beautie.
THe golden gift that nature did thee geue
To fasten frendes, and feede them at thy wyll,
With fourme and fauour, taught me to beleue.
How thow art made to shew her greatest skill.
Whose hidden vertues are not so vnknowen,
But liuely domes might gather at the furst
Where beauty so her perfect seede hath sowen,
Of other graces folow nedes there must.
Now certesse Garret, sins all this is true,
That from aboue thy giftes are thus elect:
Do not deface them than with fansies newe,
Nor change of mindes let not thy minde infect:
But mercy him thy frende, that doth thee serue,
Who seekes alway thine honour to preserue.