I once may see when years shall wreck my wrong,

All other honors do my hopes refuse,Which meaner priz’d and momentary be.For God forbid I should my papers blotWith mercenary lines, with servile pen,Praising virtues in them that have them not,Basely attending on the hopes of men.No, no, my verse respects nor Thames nor theaters,Nor seeks it to be known unto the great;But Avon rich…

The king had made upon this new-rais’d force,In the unconfirmed troops, much fear did breed,Untimely hind’ring their intended course.The joining with the Welsh they had decreedWas hereby dash’d; which made their cause the worse.Northumberland, with forces from the north,Expected to be there, was not set forth.XXXVIIAnd yet undaunted Hotspur, seeing the kingSo near arriv’d, leaving…

Behold the message of my just complainingThat shows the world how much my grief imported.These tributary plaints fraught with desire,I send those eyes the cabinets of love;The Paradise whereto my hopes aspireFrom out this hell, which mine afflictions prove.Wherein I thus do live cast down from mirth,Pensive alone, none but despair about me;My joys abortive,…

She there in that sweet sanctuary slew it,Where it presum’d its safety to be nearest.My priviledge of faith could not protect it,That was with blood and three years’ witness sign’d;In all which time she never could suspect it,For well she saw my love, and how I pin’d.And yet no comfort would her brow reveal me,No…

Whilst in her tender green she doth encloseThat pure sweet Beauty Time bestows upon her.No sooner spreads her glory in the air,But straight her full-blown pride is in declining;She then is scorn’d that late adorn’d the Fair;So clouds thy beauty after fairest shining.No April can revive thy wither’d flowers,Whose blooming grace adorns thy glory now;Swift…

Are these due tributes that my faith doth payUnto the tyrant whose kindness kills.I sacrifice my youth and blooming yearsAt her proud feet, and she respects it not;My flower untimely’s wither’d with my tearsAnd winter woes, for spring of youth unfit.She thinks a look may recompence my care,And so with looks prolongs my long-lookt ease;As…