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First Line: Hope, art thou true, or dost thou flatter me?
Last Line: Rather than by more truth to get more pain.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


Hope, art thou true, or dost thou flatter me?
Doth Stella now begin with piteous eye
The ruins of her conquest to espy;
Will she take time, before all wracked be?
Her eyes' speech is translated thus by thee:
But fail'st thou not, in phrase so heavenly-high?
Look on again, the fair text better try;
What blushing notes dost thou in margin see?
What sighs stol'n out, or killed before full born?
Hast thou found such, and such-like arguments?
Or art thou else to comfort me forsworn?
Well, how so thou interpret the contents,
I am resolved thy error to maintain,
Rather than by more truth to get more pain.





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