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 |  | from The Maid's Tragedy, 1622 Lay a garland on my hearse of the dismal yew,
 Maidens, willow branches bear, say, I diëd true.
 My love was false, but I was firm from my hour of birth ;
 Upon my buried body lay lightly, gently, earth.
 
 
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 Source:
 Poetry of the English Renaissance 1509-1660.
 J. William Hebel and Hoyt H. Hudson, eds.
 New York: F. S. Crofts & Co., 1941. 395.
 
 
 
 
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