%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> Ane Excellent / LOVE SONNET. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Director Patricia Fumerton Associate Director Carl G Stahmer ?-? Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 09/09/2014 34289

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T166092 WIth Imperial sweetness / my Princes denyes: Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 58 Ane Excellent / LOVE SONNET. An Excellent LOVE SONNET. ?-?

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With Imperial sweetness my Princes denyes: That my lips they make good the report of mine eyes. With rigorous silence I easily see, That an absolute Murder is prepared for me. My thoughts are rebellious, and strives to make known That person most glorious, which I dare not own: Left fearing her anger, I strive to restrain, Then shall I neer pity nor pardon obtain. Had I but the honour at her feet to rehearse, The number of torments, with their sad increase I then would be eased to think that ye knew, With how much contentment I suffer for you. My life is disastrous, and this is my doom. To dye for a Beauty, and none most know whom: For I'm so obedient, this life I'le resign, For since I first saw thee could never call mine. I wish that my body were in the grave laid. That my corps might rest which torments have had: And she who should have lov'd me, might sensible be; That she hath been my burial, and caus'd me to die. My thoughts they are suspended twixt hope and despair, My Joyes they are ended, and sorrows repair, But yet if compassion with Beauty agree, I have reason to hope some comfort from thee. My great want of comfort, and fear she say nay, Bears down my intention and crosses me alway: Yet I will essay, what ever will befall; For dumb men and cowards, gain nothing at all. O sweetest, you know then my merits but small, Your beauty is great, and your vertue's 'bove all; Your favour transcendeth, as the world may see, O let him not die, Love, who liveth for thee.
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