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First Line: I do not here upon this hum'rous stage
Last Line: From goodness, virtue, glory, fame, and all.
Subject(s): Greville, Fulke, 1st Baron Brooke


I do not here upon this hum'rous stage
Bring my transformed verse, appareled
With others' passions or with others' rage,
With loves, with wounds, with factions furnished;
But here present thee, only modeled
In this poor frame, the form of mine own heart.
Here, to revive myself, my muse is led
With motions of her own t' act her own part,
Striving to make her now contemned art
As fair t' herself as possibly she can,
Lest seeming of no force, of no desert,
She might repent the course that she began,
And with these times of dissolution, fall
From goodness, virtue, glory, fame, and all.





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