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| Rise from the foote, Louers may doe so too. [f. 35v] |
| For as free Sphæres move faster farr, then can |
| Byrdes, when* the Ayre resistes: Soe may that Man |
| Which goes this emptie, and ætheriall waie |
| Then if at Beauties Elements hee staie. |
| Rich Nature hath in Woaman wiselie made |
| Two Purses, and their Mouthes auerslie laide. |
| They then which to the lower, Tribute owe |
| That waie, which that Exchequor lookes, must goe. |
| Hee wch doth not, his Error is as great |
| As who by Clyster gaue the Stomach Meate.| |
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| Elegie. On the Ladie Markham.| |
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| Man is the World, and Death the Ocean [f. 35v] |
| To which God giues the lower parts of Man. |
| The Sea invirons all, and though as yett |
| God haue sett Markes, and Bounds twixt vs, and it, |
| Yett doth it weare, and gnawe, and still pretend |
| And breakes our Banckes when ere it takes a frend. |
| Then our land-waters (Teares of passion) vent |
| Our Waters there aboue our firmament. |
| (Teares wch or Soule doth for her Sinne lett fall)
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