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alluding at the same time to the fact that his father 



was dead : 



" Dear my love, you know 

 You had a father : let your son say so." xiii. 



Then the "faire Elizabeth " comes across Southamp- 

 ton's vision, and the vicissitudes of true love begin. 

 The lovers, owing partly to the Earl's imprudence in 

 "courting with too much familiarity," but chiefly to 

 the enmity of the Queen, are forced to part, and South- 

 ampton cries : 



" Farewell ! thou art too dear for my possessing." 



Ixxxvii. 

 And again : 



" Let me confess that we two must be twain, 

 Although our undivided loves are one." xxxvi. 



He keenly feels his banishment from Court : 



" When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, 

 I all alone beweep my outcast state." 



xxix. 

 He hastens to bed, seeking rest and finding none : 



" But then begins a journey in my head, 

 To work my mind, when body's work's expired ; 

 For then my thoughts . . . 

 Present thy shadow to my sightless view, 

 Which, like a jewel hung in ghastly night, 

 Makes black night beauteous, and her old face new. 

 Lo ! thus, by day my limbs, by night my mind, 

 For thee and for myself no quiet find." xxvii. 



He travels on the Continent with a heavy heart : 

 " How heavy do I journey on my way, 



The beast that bears me, tired with my woe, 

 Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me." 1. 



