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SONNET TO NICHOLAS BLACKLEECH OF GRAYES INNE by RICHARD BARNFIELD

First Line: TO YOU, THAT KNOW THE TUCH OF TRUE CONCEAT
Last Line: NOT FOR THE GIFT, BUT FOR THE GIVERS SAKE.
Subject(s): PRAISE;

To you, that know the tuch of true Conceat;
(Whose many gifts I neede not to repeat)
I write these Lines; fruits of unriper yeares;
Wherein my Muse no harder censure feares;
Hoping in gentle Worth, you will them take;
Not for the gift, but for the givers sake.



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