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| Only to lock vp, or else to lett them fall? [f. 97v] |
| Good is not good vnless |
| A thousand it possesse |
| But doth wast with greedines.| |
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| The Dreame |
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| Deere love, for nothing less then thee, |
| Would I haue brooke this happy dreame |
| It was a theame |
| For reason much to strong for fantasie, |
| Therefore thou wakedst me wisely; yett |
| My dreame thou brokst not, but continewedst it, |
| Thou art so truth, that thoughts of thee suffice |
| To make dreames truth, and fables histories. |
| Enter theis Armes, for since thou thoughest it best |
| Not to dreame all my dreame, letts doe the rest.| |
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| As lightnings or a Tapers light |
| Thine eyes, and not this noise wakd me, |
| Yett I thought thee |
| (Thou lovest truth) but an Angell at first sight, |
| But when I sawe thou sawest my harte, |
| And knewest my thoughts, beyond an Angels Arte, |
| When thou knewest what I dreamt, when thou knewest when
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[CW: Excess] |