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attend > listen to
stay > check

201.36

But if that carelesse heauens (quoth she) despise
2 The doome of iust reuenge, and take delight
To see sad pageants of mens miseries,
4 As bound by them to liue in +liues+ despight,
Yet can they not warne death from wretched wight.
6 Come then, come soone, come sweetest death to mee,
And take away this long lent loathed light:
8 Sharpe be thy wounds, but sweet the medicines bee,
That long captiued soules from wearie thraldome free.

4 liues > lifes _1609_

1 "But if careless heavens," quoth she, "despise

despise > set at naught; treat with contempt

2 The doom of just revenge, and take delight

doom > judgement, sentence; righteousness, equity; power, authority

3 To see sad pageants of men's miseries,

pageants > {Acted scenes on stage}

4 As bound by them to live in life's despite,

bound > fated, compelled [by the heavens]
life's despite > [life's malicious circumstances; or, perhaps:
scorning, defiant of, life]

5 Yet can they not warn death from wretched wight.

warn death from > refuse death to [a]
wight > mortal, woman

6 Come then, come soon, come sweetest death to me,
7 And take away this long lent loathed light:
8 Sharp be your wounds, but sweet the medicines be,
9 That long captived souls from weary thraldom free.

thraldom > captivity, bondage

201.37

But thou, sweet Babe, whom frowning froward fate
2 Hath made sad witnesse of thy fathers fall,
Sith heauen thee deignes to hold in liuing state,
4 Long maist thou liue, and better thriue withall,
Then to thy lucklesse parents did befall:
6 Liue thou, and to thy mother dead attest,
That cleare she dide from blemish criminall;
8 Thy litle hands embrewd in bleeding brest
Loe I for pledges leaue. So giue me leaue to rest.

1 "But you, sweet babe, whom frowning froward Fate

froward > perverse; adverse; evilly disposed

2 Has made sad witness of your father's fall,
3 Sith heaven you deigns to hold in living state,

Sith > Since

4 Long may you live, and better thrive withal

withal > with it, in addition

5 Than to your luckless parents did befall:
6 Live you, and to your mother dead attest

mother dead > [dead mother]
attest > testify (this obsolete use is indicated by the preceding
"to"; though better sense is made if the "to" is omitted, as:
"attest that your dead mothe