Amour 40

O thou vnkindest fayre! most fayrest shee,

In thine eyes tryumph murthering my poore hart,

Now doe I sweare by heauens, before we part,

My halfe-slaine hart shall take reuenge on thee.

Thy mother dyd her lyfe to death resigne,

And thou an Angell art, and from aboue;

Thy father was a man, that will I proue,

Yet thou a Goddesse art, and so diuine.

And thus, if thou be not of humaine kinde,

A Bastard on both sides needes must thou be;

Our Lawes allow no land to basterdy:

By natures Lawes we thee a bastard finde.

Then hence to heauen, vnkind, for thy childs part:

Goe bastard goe, for sure of thence thou art.

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