Poems: by Michaell Draiton Esquire

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Poems: by Michaell Draiton Esquire
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Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631.
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London :: Printed [by Valentine Simmes] for N. Ling,
1605.
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Sonnet. 20.

AN euill spirit your beautie haunts me still, Wherewith (alas) I haue beene long possest, Which ceaseth not to tempt me vnto ill, Nor giues me once but one poore minutes rest: In me it speakes whether I sleepe or wake, And when by meanes to driue it out I trie, With greater torments then it me doth take, And tortures me in most extreamitie, Before my face, it laies all my dispaires, And hastes me on vnto a suddaine death; Now tempting me to drowne my selfe in teares, And then in sighing to giue vp my breath; Thus am I still prouokde to euery euill, By this good wicked spirit, sweete Angell diuell.
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