Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 1546: Sonnet XLI
The fansy, which that I have served long ;
That hath alway been enemy to myne ease ;
Seemed of late to rue upon my wrong,
And bad me flye the cause of my misease.
And I forthwith did prease out of the throng,
That thought by flight my painfull hart to please
Som other way: tyll I saw faith more strong ;
And to my self I said: alas, those daies
In vayn were spent, to runne the race so long.
And with that thought I met my guyde that playn
Out of the way wherin I wandred wrong,
Brought me amiddes the hilles in base Bullayne :
Where I am now, as restlesse to remayn
Against my will, full pleased with my payn.
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