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Loe here behold these tributarie teares / Paid to thy faire but cruell tyrant eyes; / Loe here the blossome of my youthfull yeares, / Nipt with the fresh of thy wraths winter, dyes! / Here on Loves altar I doo offer up / This burning hart for my soules sacrifice; / Here I receave this deadly-poysned cu[p] / Of Circe charm'd, wherein deepe magicke lyes. / Then teares, if you be happie teares indeed, / And hart, if thou be lodged in his brest, / And cup, if thou canst helpe despaire with speed, / Teares, hart, and cup, conjoine to make me blest! / Teares move, hart win, cup cause, ruth, love, desire, / In word, in deed; by moane, by zeale, by fire.
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