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A SWEET NOSEGAY: A CAREFULL COMPLAYNT BY THE UNFORTUNATE AUCTOR, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good dido stint thy teares, and sorrowes all resigne
Last Line: Ye sisters three dispatch my dayes and finysh all my care.
Subject(s): Pain; Women; Suffering; Misery


Good DIDO stint thy teares, and sorrowes all resigne
To mee: that borne was to augment, misfortunes lucklesse line.
Or using styll the same, good DIDO doo thy best:
In helpyng to bewayle the hap, that furthereth mine unrest.
For though thy Troyan mate, that Lorde AENEAS hight:
Requityng yll thy stedfast love, for Carthage tooke his flight.
And fowly brake his oth, and promise made before:
Whose falshode finisht thy delight, before thy haires were hore.
Yet greater cause of griefe compells mee to complayne:
For Fortune fell coverted hath, my health to heapes of payne.
And that she sweares my death, to playne it is (alas)
Whose end let malyce styll attempt, to bring the same to passe.
O DIDO thou hadst liv'de, a happye Woman styll,
If fickle fancie had not thrald thy wits: to retchlesse wyll.
For as the man by whom, thy deadly dolors bred:
Without regard of plighted troth, from CARTHAGE Citie fled.
So might thy cares in tyme, be banisht out of thought:
His absence might well salve the sore, that earst his presence wrought.
For fyre no lenger burnes, than Faggots feede the flame:
The want of things that breede annoy, may soone redresse the same.
But I unhappy moste, and gript with endles griefes:
Dispayre (alas) amid my hope, and hope without reliefe.
And as the sweltyng heate, consumes the Wax away:
So doo the heapes of deadly harmes, styll threaten my decay.
O Death delay not long, thy dewtye to declare:
Ye Sisters three dispatch my dayes and finysh all my care.





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