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Broken ["Hee is stark mad who euer saies"]



Ah what a trifle is a hartt,
If once into loues hands it com̅e?
All other griefes allowe a part
To other griefes, and aske them selues but som̅e.
They come to vs, but vs loue drawes;
Hee swallowes vs, And neuer chawes
By him as by chaine=Shott whole ranks doe die
Hee is the Tiran Pike, and our harts the frie.


If twere not soe what did become
Of my hart, when I first saw thee?
I brought a hart into the roome,
But from the roome I caried none with mee:
If it had gone to thee, I knowe
Myne would haue taught thy harte to show
More pittye vnto mee. But loue alasse
At one first blowe did shiuer it as glas


Yet nothinge cann to nothing fall
Nor any place bee emptie quite,
Therefore I thinke my Brest hath all
Those peeces still, though they bee not vnite.
And now as broken glasses shewe
A hvndred lesser faces soe
My raggs of Hart can like, wish, and adore
But after one such loue, cane loue no more.| [CW: Stand]
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