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SONNET: 13 by RICHARD BARNFIELD

First Line: SPEAKE ECCHO, TELL; HOW MAY I CALL MY LOVE?
Last Line: HE VADES AWAY, AND THOU RAING'ST WHERE IT LIST THEE.
Subject(s): LOVE;

Speake Eccho, tell; how may I call my love?
But how his Lamps that are so christaline?
Oh happy starrs that make your heavens divine:
And happy Iems that admiration move.
How tearm'st his golden tresses wav'd with aire?
Oh lovely haire of your more-lovely Maister,
Image of love, faire shape of Alablaster,
Why do'st thou drive thy Lover to dispaire?
How do'st thou cal the bed wher beuty grows?
Faire virgine-Rose, whose mayden blossoms cover
The milke-white Lilly, thy imbracing Lover:
Whose kisses makes thee oft thy red to love.
And blushing oft for shame, when he hath kist thee,
He vades away, and thou raing'st where it list thee.



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