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Camoens - The Lyrics part 1 - Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)

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LYRICKS OF CAMOENS,LEm quanta quis Fortima que tivesse(General Proposition or Proemiutn of Rhythmas, Petrarch, I.i),While Fortune willed that for me be dightSome grateful Esperance of some glad Content,<strong>The</strong> gust of loving Thought a longing lentTo pen its pleasures and its pains to write :But Love, in terror lest my Writ inditeLere for the judgment he hath never shent,So with his darkling pains my Genius blentThat mote I never tell his tale of sleightO ye, whom Love's obligeance may subjectTo Wills so divers ! when you read thereofBound in one Booklet cases so diverse ;(Which all be truthful, facts without defect)Learn that according as you have the Love,So shall you have the Lore, of this my verse.

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