| Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of King James the First. 1847. | | | | Penitentia | | LVIII. Henry Peacham |
| | | THERE sits Repentance, solitarie, sad, | |
| Herselfe beholding in a fountaine cleare, | |
| As greeuing for the life that she hath lad; | |
| One hand a fish, the other birch doth beare, | |
| Wherewith her bodie she doth oft chastize, | 5 |
| Or fastes, to curbe her fleshly enimies. | |
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| Her solemn cheare, and gazing in the fount, | |
| Denote her anguish and her griefe of soule, | |
| As often as her life she doth recount, | |
| Which conscience doth with howerly care enroule. | 10 |
| The willoe greene she most delights to weare, | |
| Tells how her hope shall overcome dispaire. | | | | |
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