Versos English Stephen Hawes Amoure

English poem

Amoure

by (1474–1523)

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Please it your grace for to gyve audyence Unto my wofull and pitous complaynte; How fervent love, wythout resystence, My careful herte hath made low and faynte, And you therof are the hole constraynt; Your beauty truly hath me fettered faste, Wythout your helpe my life is nere hand paste.