Sonet 22

An euill spirit your beauty haunts me still,

Where-with (alas) I haue been long possest,

Which ceaseth not to tempt me vnto ill,

Nor giues me once but one pore minutes rest.

In me it speakes, whether I sleepe or wake,

And when by meanes to driue it out I try,

With greater torments then it me doth take,

And tortures me in most extreamity.

Before my face, it layes all my dispaires,

And hasts me on vnto a suddaine death;

Now tempting me, to drown my selfe in teares,

And then in sighing to giue vp my breath:

Thus am I still prouok'd to euery euill,

By this good wicked spirit, sweet Angel deuill.

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