The amorose songes, sonets, and elegies: of M. Alexander Craige, Scoto-Britane

His faythfull seruice to IDEA.

MY wandring Verse hath made thee known al•• where Thou known by them, & they are known by mee▪ Thou, they, and I, a true relation beare: As but the one, an other can not bee; For if it chance by thy disdane I die, My Songs shal cease, and thou be known no more. Thus by experience thou mayst plainly see, I them, thou mee, and they do thee decore. Thou art that Dame whom I shall ay adore In spight of Fortune and the frowning Fats, Whose shining beautie makes my Songs to sore In Hyperbolik loftie ••eigh conceits: Thou, they, & I throughout the world be known They mine▪ thou theirs, and last I am thine own.