A Complaint of a Sinner (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
O Lord most deare, wh many a teare, lamenting, lameting,I fall before thy face,And for ech crime, done ere this ...
O Lord most deare, wh many a teare, lamenting, lameting,I fall before thy face,And for ech crime, done ere this ...
If pure goodwill, not meaning ill, might boldly, might boldly, Presume to tell his minde:I wold not vse, in terms diffuse, ...
As I lay musing in my bed,A heape of fancies came in head,Which greatly did molest mee.Such sundry thoughtes of ...
Muse not too much (o wight of worthy fame)At view of this my rude & ragged rime,I am almost enforst ...
Lorde for my slepe and reste this nighte And for this grace preserueinge mee In bodye sounde in mynde vprighte, Honor and prayse ...
Hast thou desire thy golden dayes to spend,In blisfull state exempt from all annoyes?So liue, as if death now thy ...
I that in freedome liued of late,And neuer stoupt to Cupids lure,Haue now made change of my estate.And thousand torments ...
Al yee vnto whome the skanning and viewing,Shal come of these questions, & riddles ensuing:I let you first know thus ...
To stad on Terms twere vain. By hook & crookOne Terme I was defrauded of a Booke.Now Readers your assistance ...
Ye gladly would haue me to make you some toy,And yet will not tel me wherof I should write:The strangenes ...
Whereat erewhile I wept, I laugh,That which I feared, I now despiseMy victor once, my vassall is,My fo constrainde, my ...
Of thee (O my friend) a thing I doe craue,Which thou neuer hadst, nor neuer shalt haue.If that for thy ...
I humblie craue that as my fall,Hath much offended each degree,So my restore, may comfort allThat loue the Lord vnfeinedlie.And ...
Nowe warlike Hector doth depart with Paris out the towne,They willing both in armes to shewe some deede of great ...
No Thrasion harpe, but a steeld furious whippe, no Nightingales, but Mandrakes shreeking sound,Adastors snakes to make these Thrasors skippe: ...
Allemyghty god, maker of alle,Saue you my souereyns in towre & halle, And send you good grace!If ye wylle a ...
IT was the time, when rest soft sliding downeFrom heauens hight into mens heauy eyes,In the forgetfulnes of sleepe doth ...
The Senses dull of my appalled museForeweryed with the trauayle of my brayneIn scannyng of the argued Bookes difuse,And darke ...
Alas my loue, ye do me wrong, to cast me off discurteously: And I haue loued you so long Delighting ...
Loe I am sent, but vnto whome God knowes:Mine aucthor ment, this message to inclose.Within his chest, as he doth ...
Good Reader yeld thy listing earelet hart and minde be prest,For thinges right wondrous thou shalt heareand learne to choose ...
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