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Tixall Poetry.
Nay, 'tis one cause of sorrow more, that they
Challenge a greater debt then I can pay;
And my discharge thereof must only be
Desire to doe it, and incapacity.
Tho' I sometimes with lost indeavour frame
These arguments, t' invalidate their claime.
I urge 'gainst nature the necessity
Of death; she has paid a debt, life can but be
A short forbearance of, and I shall soone
Finish the race she has before me run.
Tho' friendship justly challenges much more,
It gives resembling meanes to quit the score.
Tho' by the satisfaction which I tooke
In each discourse of hers, in every looke,
In seeing all that I could wish to see,
"Where I did most desire that it should be,
I may summe up how much I've lost in her,
I must to mine her happiness prefer.
For all enjoyments here but nothings prove
To what her merit gaines by this remove.
Lastly, the want of her example, (who
Scorn'd all delights of sense, and joined thereto
Challenge a greater debt then I can pay;
And my discharge thereof must only be
Desire to doe it, and incapacity.
Tho' I sometimes with lost indeavour frame
These arguments, t' invalidate their claime.
I urge 'gainst nature the necessity
Of death; she has paid a debt, life can but be
A short forbearance of, and I shall soone
Finish the race she has before me run.
Tho' friendship justly challenges much more,
It gives resembling meanes to quit the score.
Tho' by the satisfaction which I tooke
In each discourse of hers, in every looke,
In seeing all that I could wish to see,
"Where I did most desire that it should be,
I may summe up how much I've lost in her,
I must to mine her happiness prefer.
For all enjoyments here but nothings prove
To what her merit gaines by this remove.
Lastly, the want of her example, (who
Scorn'd all delights of sense, and joined thereto
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