by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Sweet, let me go! Sweet, let me go!
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Sweet, let me go! Sweet, let me go!
What do you mean to vex me so?
Cease, cease, cease your pleading force.
Do you think thus to extort remorse?
Now no more; alas, you overbear me;
And I would cry, but some would hear, I fear me.

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Confirmed with Oxford Book of Short Poems, in the section "Anonymous (printed 1599-1610)"


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