Versos English Stephen Hawes Cap. XIX. How la Bell Pucell Graunted Graund Amoure Love, and of Her Dispiteous Departage

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Cap. XIX. How la Bell Pucell Graunted Graund Amoure Love, and of Her Dispiteous Departage

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Your wo and payne, and all your languishynge Continually ye shall not spende in vayne, Sythen I am cause of your great mornynge, Nothynge exyle you shall I by dysdayne; Youre hert and myne shall never parte in twayne: Though at the fyrste I wolde not condescende, It was for fere ye dyde some yll entende.