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| Such as would call her frindship loue, and fayne [167] |
| To sociablenesse a name profane. |
| Or some by tempting, or, not daring that, |
| By wishing though they never told her what |
| Thus mightst thou haue slayne more souls, hadst thou not crost |
| Thy selfe, and, to triumph thy Army lost. |
| Yet though these wayes bee left, thou hast left one |
| Wch is, im̀„oderate greefe that shee is gon |
| But wee may scape that Sinne, yet weepe as much|.| |
| Our teares ar due because wee are not such. |
| Some teares that knott of frinds her death must cost |
| Because the chayne is broke though no linke lost |
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| [Transcriptions are not provided for noncanonical poems, elegies on Donne by other authors, or prose compositions.] |