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| I SEE, that chance hath chosen me | |
| Thus secretly to live in pain, | |
| And to another given the fee, | |
| Of all my loss to have the gain: | |
| By chance assign’d thus do I serve. | 5 |
| And other have that I deserve. | |
| Unto myself sometime alone | |
| I do lament my woful case; | |
| But what availeth me to moan | |
| Since truth and pity hath no place | 10 |
| In them, to whom I sue and serve? | |
| And other have that I deserve. | |
| To seek by mean to change this mind, | |
| Alas, I prove, it will not be; | |
| For in my heart I cannot find | 15 |
| Once to refrain, but still agree, | |
| As bound by force, alway to serve, | |
| And other have that I deserve. | |
| Such is the fortune that I have, | |
| To love them most that love me lest; | 20 |
| And to my pain to seek, and crave | |
| The thing that other have possest: | |
| So thus in vain alway I serve, | |
| And other have that I deserve. | |
| And till I may appease the heat, | 25 |
| If that my hap will hap so well, | |
| To wail my woe my heart shall frete, | |
| Whose pensive pain my tongue can tell; | |
| Yet thus unhappy must I serve. | |
| And other have that I deserve. | 30 |
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