QUOTE : Lost, I am Lost! My fates have doomed my death.<br />The more I strive, I love; the more I love,<br />The less I hope. I see my ruin, certain.<br />What judgement or endeavors could apply<br />To my incurable and restless wounds<br />I throughly have examined, but in vain.<br />Oh, that it were not in religion sin<br />To make our love a god and worship it!<br />I have even wearied heaven with prayers, dried up<br />The spring of my continual tears, even starved<br />My veins with daily fasts; what wit or art<br />Could counsel, I have practiced. But, alas,<br />I find all these but dreams and old men's tales<br />To fright unsteady youth; I'm still the same.<br />Or I must speak or burst. Tis not, I know,<br />My lust, but tis my fate that leads me on.<br />Keep fear and low fainthearted shame with slaves!<br />I'll tell her that I love her, through my heart<br />Were rated at the price of that attempt.