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Like a bad suitor desperate and trembling / From the mixed sense of being not loved and loving, / Who with feared longing half would know, dissembling / With what he'd wish proved what he fears soon proving, / I look with inner eyes afraid to look, / Yet perplexed into looking, at the worth / This verse may have and wonder, of my book, / To what thoughts shall't in alien hearts give birth.
But, as he who doth love, and, loving, hopes, / Yet, hoping, fears, fears to put proof to proof, / And in his mind for possible proofs gropes, / Delaying the true proof, lest the real thing scoff, / I daily live, i'th' fame I dream to see, / But by my thought of others' thought of me.