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Astrophel and Stella - Sonnet LXV

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Loue, by sure proofe I may call thee vnkind,     That giu'st no better ear to my iust cries;     Thou whom to me such good turnes should bind,     As I may well recount, but none can prize:     For when, nak'd Boy, thou couldst no harbour finde     In this old world, growne now so too, too wise,     I lodgd thee in my heart, and being blind     By nature borne, I gaue to thee mine eyes;     Mine eyes! my light, my heart, my life, alas!     If so great seruices may scorned be,     Yet let this thought thy Tygrish courage passe,     That I perhaps am somewhat kinne to thee;     Since in thine armes, if learnd fame truth hath spread,     Thou bear'st the Arrow, I the Arrow-head.

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