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Amour 10

By Michael Drayton

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Oft taking pen in hand, with words to cast my woes,     Beginning to account the sum of all my cares,     I well perceiue my griefe innumerable growes,     And still in reckonings rise more millions of dispayres.     And thus, deuiding of my fatall howres,     The payments of my loue I read, and reading crosse,     And in substracting set my sweets vnto my sowres;     Th' average of my ioyes directs me to my losse.     And thus mine eyes, a debtor to thine eye,     Who by extortion gaineth all theyr lookes,     My hart hath payd such grieuous vsury,     That all her wealth lyes in thy Beauties bookes;         And all is thine which hath been due to mee,         And I a Banckrupt, quite vndone by thee.

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Michael Drayton (1563–1631) was an English poet whose "Poly-Olbion" (1612–1622) is a vast topographical poem describing the landscape and legends of England and Wales. His sonnet "Since there's no help" is among the finest of the Elizabethan era.

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