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When thou wilt swim in that live bath,
Each fish, which every channel hath,
Will amorously to thee swim,
Gladder to catch thee, than thou him.
If thou, to be so seen, beest loth,
By Sun, or Moon, thou darknest both;
And if my self have leave to see,
I need not their light, having thee.
Let others freez with angling reeds,
And cut their legs, with shells and weeds,
Or treacherously poor fish beset,
With strangling snare, or winding net.
Let coarse bold hands, from slimy nest
The bedded fish in banks out-wrest,
Or curious traitors, sleave silk flies
Bewitch poor fishes wandring eyes.
For thee, thou needest no such deceit.
For thou thy self art thine own bait,
That fish, that is not catch'd thereby,
Alas, is wiser far than I.
The Apparition.
When by thy scorn, O murdress, I am dead,
And thou shalt think thee free
Of all solicitation from me,
Then shall my ghost come to thy bed,
And thee fain'd Vestal in worse armes shall see;

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