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| Shee floutes her channell, w.ch thencforth growes drye [120] |
| Then, say I, That is shee, and this am I. |
| Yet let not thy deepe bitternesse beget |
| Carelesse dispayre in mee, for that will whet |
| My mind to scorne, and ô Loue dulld with payne |
| Was ner'e so wise or well armd as disdayne. |
| Then with new eyes I shall suruay thee, and spie |
| Death in thy cheekes and darkenesse in thine eye. |
| Though hope breede fayth and loue, thus taught, I shall |
| (As nations doe from Rome) from thy loue fall |
| My hate shall outgrowe thine, and vtterly |
| I will renounce thy dalliance, and when I |
| Am the Recusant, in that resolute state |
| What hurts it mee to bee excom̄unicate?| |
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| Elegie. 5.| |
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| Natures lay Idiot I taught thee to loue |
| And in that sophistry, ô, thou dost proue |
| Too subtill a Foole, Thou didst not vnderstand |
| The mistick language of the eye or hand |
| Nor couldst thou iudge the difference of the Ayre |
| Of sighs, and say, this lies, this shewes* dispayre |
| Nor by th'Eyes water knowe* a malady |
| Desprately hot or changing feauerously |
| I had not taught thee then the Alphabet |
| Of flowers how they deuisefully beeing set |
| And bound vp, migtht with speechelesse secrecy |
| Deliuer errands mutely and mutually
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