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Original text: Poetry Book Society Bulletin (Nov. 1958); Poems, ed. Leicester Bradner (Providence, R.I., Brown University Press, 1964): 4, 71-72.
First publication date: 1612
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 1996-2000.
Recent editing: 1:2002/4/18

Composition date: 1554 - 1555
Form: quatrain
Rhyme: abab