| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | My Hope a Counsel | | Anonymous |
| | | MY 1 hope a counsel with my heart | |
| Hath long desired to be, | |
| And marvels much so dear a friend | |
| Is not retained by me. | |
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| She doth condemn my haste | 5 |
| In passing the estate | |
| Of my whole life into their hands, | |
| Who nought repays but hate: | |
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| And not sufficed with this, she says, | |
| I did release the right | 10 |
| Of my enjoyèd liberties | |
| Unto your beauteous sight. | |
| | | Note 1. From Michael Este’s Madrigals of Three, Four, and Five Parts, 1604. [back] | | |
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