The beech, that scales the welkin with his top : All these and thousand more within this grove, By all the industry of nature strove To frame an arbour that might keepe within it, The best of beauties that the world hath in it.

The shephearriesses all will give To store him, part of theirs. Or I would lend him some, But that the store I have Will all be spent before I pay The debt I owe his grave, " O what is left can make me leave to mone ! Or what remains but doth increase it more ? Looke on his shecpe: alas!

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