Excerpt from Songs and Sonnets of the Earl of Surrey With much rejoicing to their Lord, thus flew they all about. Which when I gan resolve, and in my head conceive, What pleasant life, what heaps of joy, these little birds receive; And saw in what estate I, weary man, was brought, By want of that, they had at will, and I reject at nought; Lord! How I gan in wrath unwisely me demean! I cursed Love, and him defied I thought to turn the stream. But when I well beheld, he had me under awe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.