Where most my thoughts

J. Wilbye

Where most my thoughts, there least mine eye is striking;

Where least I come there most my heart abideth;

Where most I love I never show my liking;

From what my mind doth hold my body slideth; Pg 160

I show least care where most my care dependeth;

A coy regard where most my soul attendeth.

Despiteful thus unto myself I languish,

And in disdain myself from joy I banish.

These secret thoughts enwrap me so in anguish

That life, I hope, will soon from body vanish,

And to some rest will quickly be conveyèd

That on no joy, while so I lived, hath stayèd.