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- 1 Tired with all these, for restful death I cry:
- 2 As to behold desert a beggar born,
- 3 And needy nothing trimmed in jollity,
- 4 And purest faith unhappily forsworn,
- 5 And gilded honour shamefully misplaced,
- 6 And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted,
- 7 And right perfection wrongfully disgraced,
- 8 And strength by limping sway disabled
- 9 And art made tongue-tied by authority,
- 10 And folly, doctor-like, controlling skill,
- 11 And simple truth miscalled simplicity,
- 12 And captive good attending captain ill.
- 13 Tired with all these, from these would I be gone,
- 14 Save that to die, I leave my love alone.