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WITH all thy hart, with all thy soule and mind, | |
| Thou must him love, and his beheasts embrace; | |
| All other loves, with which the world doth blind | |
| Weake fancies, and stirre up affections base, | |
| Thou must renounce and utterly displace, | 5 |
| And give thy selfe unto him full and free, | |
| That full and freely gave himselfe to thee. | |
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| Then shalt thou feele thy spirit so possest, | |
| And ravisht with devouring great desire | |
| Of his deare selfe, that shall thy feeble brest | 10 |
| Inflame with love, and set thee all on fire | |
| With burning zeale, through every part entire, | |
| That in no earthly thing thou shalt delight, | |
| But in his sweet and amiable sight. | |
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| Thenceforth all worlds desire will in thee dye, | 15 |
| And all earthes glorie, on which men do gaze, | |
| Seeme durt and drosse in thy pure-sighted eye, | |
| Compared to that celestiall beauties blaze, | |
| Whose glorious beames all fleshly sense doth daze | |
| With admiration of their passing light, | 20 |
| Blinding the eyes, and lumining the spright. | |
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| Then shall thy ravisht soule inspired bee | |
| With heavenly thoughts farre above humane skil, | |
| And thy bright radiant eyes shall plainely see | |
| The idee of his pure glorie present still | 25 |
| Before thy face, that all thy spirits shall fill | |
| With sweet enragement of celestiall love, | |
| Kindled through sight of those faire things above. | |
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