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BALLAD TO THE ITALIAN TUNE, CALLED 'GIROMETTA', by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O permit that my sadness
Last Line: That my grace has thy grant.
Subject(s): Grief


I

O PERMIT that my sadness
May redeem my offence!
Let not words, spoke in madness,
Prejudice innocence!

II

'Twas i' th' heighth of my passion,
'Las! I rav'd all the time:
Not thy wrath, but compassion,
I deserv'd by my crime.

III

Jealous fears, with their thickness,
Had o'erclouded my brain:
What I spoke in my sickness
Ne'er remember again.

IV

Frantic men may talk treason,
From all guilt they are free:
Laws for such as want reason,
No chastisement decree.

V

Sure no tyrant did ever
Call that tongue to account,
Which, in time of a fever,
Tales of plots did recount.

VI

Then since none can be heard on
That e'er punished such faults,
O refuse not my pardon
To my past words, or thoughts!

VII

Lo! as soon as I'm cured,
I repent, I recant:
Make me, too, once assured
That my grace has thy grant.





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