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IF HIS PASSION STILL INCREASE, HE MUST SOON DIE.
If, of this fourteenth year wherein I sigh, / The end and middle with its opening vie, / Nor air nor shade can give me now release, / I feel mine ardent passion so increase: / For Love, with whom my thought no medium knows, / Beneath whose yoke I never find repose, / So rules me through these eyes, on mine own ill / Too often turn'd, but half remains to kill.