Ben. Johnson's poems, elegies, paradoxes, and sonnets
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Title
Ben. Johnson's poems, elegies, paradoxes, and sonnets
Author
King, Henry, 1592-1669.
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London :: Printed and sold by the booksellers,
1700.
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"Ben. Johnson's poems, elegies, paradoxes, and sonnets." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A47404.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.
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descriptionPage 68
The Forfeiture.
MY Dearest, To let you or the world knowWhat Debt of service I do truly owTo your unpattern'd self, were to requireA language onely form'd in the desireOf him that writes. It is the common fate,Of greatest duties to evaporateIn silent meaning, as we often seeFires by their too much fuel smother'd be:Small Obligations may find vent and speak,When greater the unable debtor break.And such are mine to you, whose favours store,Hath made me poorer then I was before;For I want words and language to declareHow strict my Bond or large your bounties are.
Since nothing in my desp'rate fortune found,Can payment make, nor yet the summe compoun••You must lose all, or else of force acceptThe body of a Bankrupt for your debt.Then Love, your Bond to Execution sue,And take my self, as forfeited to you.
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