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| To live in one land, is captivity, |
| To run all countries, a wild roguery; |
| Waters stink soon, if in one place they'abide, |
| And in the vast sea are worse purifi'd: |
| But when they kiss one bank, and leaving this |
| Never look back, but the next bank do kiss, |
| Then are they purest; Change is the nursery |
| Of musick, joy, life, and eternity. |
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| Elegie. IV. |
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| Once, and but once found in thy company, |
| All thy supposed scapes are laid on me; |
| And as a thief at bar, is question'd there |
| By all the men that have been rob'd that year, |
| So am I, (by this traiterous meanes surpriz'd) |
| By thy Hydroptique father catechiz'd. |
| Though he had wont to search with glazed eyes |
| As though he came to kill a Cockatrice, |
| Though he hath oft sworn, that he would remove |
| Thy beauties beauty, and food of our love, |
| Hope of his goods, if I with thee were seen, |
| Yet close and secret, as our souls, we' have been. |
| Though thy immortal mother, which doth lie |
| Still buried in her bed, yet will not die, |
| Takes this advantage to sleep out day light, |
| And watch thy entries, and returnes all night, |
| And, when she takes thy hand, and would seem kind, |
| Doth search what rings, and armlets she can find, |
| And kissing notes the color of thy face, |
| And fearing lest thou art swoln, doth thee imbrace, |
| And to try if thou long, doth name strange meats, |
| And notes thy paleness, blushes, sighs, and sweats;
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