<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><sonneteer xmlns:c="http://lmnl.net/clix" id="dearestdust"><meta c:sID="meta" author="Lady Catherine Dyer" title="Elegy for Sir William Dyer"/>
<sonnet><s><phr><octave c:sID="clix:octave-1"/><quatrain c:sID="clix:quatrain-1"/><line c:sID="clix:line-1"/>My dearest dust,</phr> <phr>could not thy hasty day<line c:eID="clix:line-1"/>
<line c:sID="clix:line-2"/>Afford thy drowzy patience leave to stay<line c:eID="clix:line-2"/>
<line c:sID="clix:line-3"/>One hour longer:</phr> <phr>so that we might either<line c:eID="clix:line-3"/>
<line c:sID="clix:line-4"/>Sate up,</phr> <phr>or gone to bedd together?<line c:eID="clix:line-4"/><quatrain c:eID="clix:quatrain-1"/></phr></s>
<s><phr><quatrain c:sID="clix:quatrain-2"/><line c:sID="clix:line-5"/>But since thy finisht labor hath possest<line c:eID="clix:line-5"/>
<line c:sID="clix:line-6"/>Thy weary limbs with early rest,<line c:eID="clix:line-6"/></phr>
<phr><line c:sID="clix:line-7"/>Enjoy it sweetly:</phr> <phr>and thy widdowe bride<line c:eID="clix:line-7"/>
<line c:sID="clix:line-8"/>Shall soone repose her by thy slumbering side.<line c:eID="clix:line-8"/><quatrain c:eID="clix:quatrain-2"/><octave c:eID="clix:octave-1"/></phr></s>
<s><phr><sestet c:sID="clix:sestet-1"/><quatrain c:sID="clix:quatrain-3"/><line c:sID="clix:line-9"/>Whose business,</phr> <phr>now,</phr> <phr>is only to prepare<line c:eID="clix:line-9"/>
<line c:sID="clix:line-10"/>My nightly dress,</phr> <phr>and call to prayre:<line c:eID="clix:line-10"/></phr>
<phr><line c:sID="clix:line-11"/>Mine eyes wax heavy and ye day growes old.<line c:eID="clix:line-11"/></phr></s>
<s><phr><line c:sID="clix:line-12"/>The dew falls thick,</phr> <phr>my beloved growes cold.<line c:eID="clix:line-12"/><quatrain c:eID="clix:quatrain-3"/></phr></s>
<s><phr><couplet c:sID="clix:couplet-1"/><line c:sID="clix:line-13"/>Draw,</phr> <phr>draw ye closed curtaynes:</phr> <phr>and make room:<line c:eID="clix:line-13"/></phr>
<phr><line c:sID="clix:line-14"/>My dear,</phr> <phr>my dearest dust;</phr> <phr>I come,</phr> <phr>I come.<line c:eID="clix:line-14"/><couplet c:eID="clix:couplet-1"/><sestet c:eID="clix:sestet-1"/></phr></s></sonnet></sonneteer>
