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I Will become a Hermit now,
and doo my penance straight
For all the errors of mine eyes
with foolish rashnes fild;
My hermitage shall placed be,
where mellancholies waight,
And none but loue alone shall knowe
the bower I meane to build.
My daylie diet shall be care,
made calme by no delight:
My dolefull drinke my drierie teares,
amidst the darkesome place
The fire that burnes my heedles heart
shall stand in stead of light,
And shall consume my wearie life
mine errors to deface.
My gowne shall be of spreding gray
to clad my limmes withall:
My late repent vpon my browe
shall plainlie written be.
My tedious griefe and great remorse
that doth my soule enthrall,
Shall serue to plead my wearie paines
Scillaes metamorphosis: enterlaced with the vnfortunate loue of Glaucus VVhereunto is annexed the delectable discourse of the discontented satyre: with sundrie other most absolute poems and sonnets. Contayning the detestable tyrannie of disdaine, and comicall triumph of constancie: verie fit for young courtiers to peruse, and coy dames to remember. By Thomas Lodge of Lincolnes Inne, Gentleman.
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- Scillaes metamorphosis: enterlaced with the vnfortunate loue of Glaucus VVhereunto is annexed the delectable discourse of the discontented satyre: with sundrie other most absolute poems and sonnets. Contayning the detestable tyrannie of disdaine, and comicall triumph of constancie: verie fit for young courtiers to peruse, and coy dames to remember. By Thomas Lodge of Lincolnes Inne, Gentleman.
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- Lodge, Thomas, 1558?-1625.
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- Imprinted at London :: By Richard Ihones, and are to be sold at his shop neere Holburne bridge, at the signe of the Rose and Crowne,
- 1589.
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"Scillaes metamorphosis: enterlaced with the vnfortunate loue of Glaucus VVhereunto is annexed the delectable discourse of the discontented satyre: with sundrie other most absolute poems and sonnets. Contayning the detestable tyrannie of disdaine, and comicall triumph of constancie: verie fit for young courtiers to peruse, and coy dames to remember. By Thomas Lodge of Lincolnes Inne, Gentleman." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A06181.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2024.
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and pensiue miserie.
Of faintfull hope shall be my staffe,
and daylie when I pray,
My mistris picture plac't by loue
shall witnes what I say.
Finis.