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ARCADIA: CORRELATIVE VERSE, by                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Virtue, beauty, and speech did strike, wound, charm
Last Line: Mine own, embraced, sought, knot, fire, disease.


Virtue, beauty, and speech did strike, wound, charm
My heart, eyes, ears with wonder, love, delight;
First, second, last did bind, enforce, and arm
His works, shows, suits with wit, grace, and vow's might.
Thus, honor, liking, trust, much, far, and deep,
Held, pierced, possessed, my judgment, sense, and will,
Till wrong, contempt, deceit did grow, steal, creep,
Bands, favor, faith to break, defile, and kill.
Then grief, unkindness, proof, took, kindled, taught
Well grounded, noble, due, spite, rage, disdain,
But ah, alas! in vain my mind, sight, thought
Doth him, his face, his words, leave, shun, refrain,
For no thing, time, nor place can loose, quench, ease
Mine own, embraced, sought, knot, fire, disease.





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