Farewell to you! my hopes, my wonted waking dreams. Farewell sometimes enjoyèd joy! Eclipsèd are thy beams. Farewell self-pleasing thoughts! which quietness brings forth. And farewell friendship's sacred league! uniting minds of worth. And farewell, merry heart! the gift of guiltless minds; And all sports! which for life's restore, variety assigns. Let all that sweet is, void! In me no mirth may dwell. PHILIP, the cause of all this woe, my life's content, farewell! Now rhyme, the son of rage, which art no kin to skill; And endless grief which deads my life, yet knows not how to kill: Go, seek that hapless tomb! which if ye hap to find; Salute the stones that keep the limbs that held so good a mind. _FINIS._ [Illustration] _ALCILIA:_ _PHILOPARTHEN's Loving Folly._ _Non Deus_ (_ut perhibent_) _amor est_, _sed amaror_, _et error._ [Illustration] AT LONDON. _Printed by R. R. for William Mattes_, dwelling in Fleet street, at the sign of the _Hand and Plough._ 1595. [The only copy of the 1595 edition, at present known, is in the City Library, at Hamburg. It was recovered, and reprinted in 1875 by Herr WILHELM WAGNER, Ph.D., in Vol. X. of the _Deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft Jahrbuch;_ copies of this particular text being also separately printed. A limited Subscription edition, of fifty-one copies, was printed by Rev. A. B. GROSART, LL.D., F.S.A., of Blackburn, in 1879: with a fresh collation of the text by B. S. LEESON, Esq., of Hamburg. The present modernized text is based on a comparison of the above two reprints of the 1595 edition with the text of the London edition of 1613 in which some headings therein inserted between [ ], on _pp._ 256, 276, 278) first occur.] [Illustration] _A Letter written by a Gentleman to the Author, his friend._ FRIEND PHILOPARTHEN, [Illustration]