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Astrophel and Stella - Sonnet LVI

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Fy, schoole of Patience, fy! your Lesson is     Far, far too long to learne it without booke:     What, a whole weeke without one peece of looke,     And thinke I should not your large precepts misse!     When I might reade those Letters faire of blisse     Which in her face teach vertue, I could brooke     Somwhat thy leaden counsels, which I tooke     As of a friend that meant not much amisse.     But now that I, alas, doe want her sight,     What, dost thou thinke that I can euer take     In thy cold stuffe a flegmatike delight?     No, Patience; if thou wilt my good, then make     Her come and heare with patience my desire,     And then with patience bid me beare my fire.

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