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UNLESS LAURA RELENT, HE IS RESOLVED TO ABANDON HER.
Yet was I never of your love aggrieved, / Nor never shall while that my life doth last: / But of hating myself, that date is past; / And tears continual sore have me wearied: / I will not yet in my grave be buried; / Nor on my tomb your name have fixed fast, / As cruel cause, that did the spirit soon haste / From the unhappy bones, by great sighs stirr'd.