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What potions haue I drunke of Syren teares
Diſtil’d from Lymbecks foule as hell within,
Applying feares to hopes,and hopes to feares,
Still looſing when I ſaw my ſelfe to win?
What wretched errors hath my heart committed,
Whilſt it hath thought it ſelfe ſo bleſſed neuer?
How haue mine eies out of their Spheares been fitted
In the diſtraction of this madding feuer?
O benefit of ill,now I find true
That better is,by euil ſtill made better.
And ruin’d loue when it is built anew
Growes fairer then at firſt,more ſtrong,far greater.
   So I returne rebukt to my content,
   And gaine by ills thriſe more then I haue ſpent.

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