| Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. 1845. | | | | Sonnet LXXXXVIII | | V. Barnaby Barnes |
| | | WHERE shall I, vexde, my sinfull head repose? | |
| If that in errour and conceived vice, | |
| Which with deceitful blandishments intice | |
| My feeble nature, mortified with sinne; | |
| Then Hope shall gates of my salvation close | 5 |
| Against my soule, and my despaire beginne: | |
| If that in open sight, then open shame | |
| The scarlet of my conscience will disclose, | |
| And sound the shameful trumpet of my fame: | |
| Where shall I then my vexed soul dispose? | 10 |
| If not in blind obscuritie nor light, | |
| Then there, even there, in penitence with those | |
| Which weepe downe teares of comfort, to delight | |
| Their soule enlarged from eternall night. | | | | |
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