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| WHAT meaneth this! when I lie alone | |
| I toss, I turn, I sigh, I groan; | |
| My bed me seems as hard as stone: | |
| What means this? | |
| I sigh, I plain continually; | 5 |
| The clothes that on my bed do lie, | |
| Always me think they lie awry; | |
| What means this? | |
| In slumbers oft for fear I quake; | |
| For heat and cold I burn and shake; | 10 |
| For lack of sleep my head doth ake; | |
| What means this? | |
| A mornings then when I do rise, | |
| I turn unto my wonted guise, | |
| All day after muse and devise; | 15 |
| What means this? | |
| And if perchance by me there pass, | |
| She, unto whom I sue for grace, | |
| The cold blood forsaketh my face; | |
| What means this? | 20 |
| But if I sit near her by, | |
| With loud voice my heart doth cry, | |
| And yet my mouth is dumb and dry; | |
| What means this? | |
| To ask for help no heart I have; | 25 |
| My tongue doth fail what I should crave; | |
| Yet inwardly I rage and rave; | |
| What means this? | |
| Thus have I passed many a year, | |
| And many a day, though nought appear, | 30 |
| But most of that that most I fear; | |
| What means this? | |
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