A Lover's Complaint

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A Lover's Complaint is credited here to William Shakespeare. A speaker lies down to listen to a sad-tun’d tale and sees a fickle maid full pale, tearing papers and breaking rings a-twain. The maid wears upon her head a platted hive of straw which fortified her visage from the sun. The maid draws out a thousand favours of amber, crystal and beaded jet, and throws them one by one into a river.

The maid has many folded schedules, which she reads, sighs over, tears and gives to the flood. A speaker recalls a man whose foul beguiling had patterns the speaker knew, and whose deceits were gilded in his smiling. A speaker says a man preached pure maid and praised cold chastity.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was an English playwright and poet who lived during the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and authored approximately 37 plays and 154 sonnets that explore themes of love, power, ambition, and human nature.