Sheepheard, who can passe such wrong,
And a life in woes so deepe?
Which to live is to too long,
As it is too short to weepe.
Greevous sighs in vaine I wast,
Leesing my affiance, and
I perceave my hope at last
with a candle in the hand.
What time then to hope among
bitter hopes, that never sleepe?
When this life is to too long,
as it is too short to weepe.
This greefe which I feele so rife,
(wretch) I doo deserve as hire:
Since I came to put my life
in the hands of my desire.
Then cease not my complaints so strong,
for (though life her course dooth keepe):
It is not to live so long,
as it is too short to weepe.
(Bartholomew Young)
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