Englands Helicon. Or The Muses harmony.

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Title: Englands Helicon. Or The Muses harmony.
Publication: London :: Printed [by Thomas Snodham] for Richard More, and are to be sould at his shop in S. Dunstanes Church-yard,; 1614.
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Subject terms: Pastoral poetry, English.
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SHepheard, who can passe such wrong,
And a life in woes so deepe,

Which to liue is too long, As it is too short to weepe,

Grieuous sighs in vaine I waste,
Leesing my affiance, and
I perceaue my hope at last,
with a candle in the hand.

What time then to hope among
bitter hopes that neuer sleepe?
When this life is too too long,
as it is too short to weepe.

This griefe which I feele so rife,
(wretch) I doe deserue as hire:
Since I came to put my life
in the hands of my desire.

Then cease not my complaints so strong,
for (though life her course doth keepe:)
It is not to liue so long,
as it is too short to weepe.

FINIS.

Bar. Yong.