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First Line: Patience, weak-fortuned, and weak-minded wit
Last Line: A senseless state, and no true patience is.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, 1st Baron; Brooke, Lord


Patience, weak-fortuned, and weak-minded wit,
Persuade you me to joy when I am banished?
Why preach you time to come, and joys with it,
Since time already come my joys hath vanished?

Give me sweet Cynthia, with my wonted bliss,
Disperse the clouds that coffer up my treasure,
Awake Endymion with Diana's kiss,
And then sweet patience, counsel me to measure.

But while my love feels nothing but correction
While carelessness o'ershadows my devotion,
While Myra's beams show rival-like reflection,
The life of patience then must be commotion;
Since not to feel what wrong I bear in this,
A senseless state, and no true patience is.





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