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O happy dames! that may embrace
The fruit of your delight;
Help to bewail the woful case,
And eke the heavy plight
Of me, that wonted to rejoice
The fortune of my pleasant choice:
Good ladies! help to fill my mourning voice.

— Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

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Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!

Wyatt resteth here, that quick could never rest:
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