| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Diella | | Sonnet XIII. Breathing forth sighs of most heart-breaking might | | Richard Linche (fl. 1596–1601) |
| | [The same number is repeated, a kind of double Sonnet on the same thought, being attempted.] |
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BREATHING forth sighs of most heart-breaking might, | |
| my tears, my sighs, and me, you will despise! | |
| I know, when with the power that in me lies, | |
| and all the prayers and vows that women move, | |
| I shall in humblest mercy-moving wise, | 5 |
| intreat, beseech, desire, and beg your love: | |
| I know, sweet Maiden! all will not remove | |
| flint-hearted rigour from your rocky breast! | |
| But all my means, my suit, and what I prove, | |
| prove bad, and I must live in all unrest. | 10 |
| Dying in life, and living still in death, | |
| And yet nor die, nor draw a life-like breath. | | | |
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