The amorose songes, sonets, and elegies: of M. Alexander Craige, Scoto-Britane
Craig, Alexander, 1567?-1627.
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To LITHOCARDIA.
GOod cause hadst thou Euarchus to repent,
The reakles rashnes of thy bad decreit:
Thy crueltie did spring from good intent,
The grounds whereof were tedious to repeet:
Yet when thy Sonne fell downe before thy feet,
And made thine eyes confesse that he was thine,
Thou wept for woe, yet could thou not retreat
The sentence said, but sigh'd and sorow'd sine:
So may it be that once those eyes diuine,
Which now disdaine and loath to looke so low,
As to behold these miseries of mine,
shal weepe whē they my constant trueth shal know
And thou shalt sigh (though out of time) to see,
By thy decret thine owne Pirocl•s die.
