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To shewe thee, I am naked first, why than [125] |
What needst thou haue more couering then a man? |
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Although thy hand and fayth, and good workes too |
Haue seald thy loue, w.ch nothing should vndoe |
Yea though thou fall back, that Apostacy |
Confirme thy loue, yet much much I feare thee |
Woemen ar like the Arts, forc'd vnto none |
Open to all searchers, vnprisd if vnknowne. |
If I haue caught a bird, and let him flie |
Another fowler, vsing the meanes as I, |
May catch the same bird, and as these things bee |
Woemen ar made for men, not him, nor mee |
Foxes, and Goates, all beasts, change when they please |
Shall woemen, more hot, wily, wild then these, |
Bee bound to one man? and did nature then |
Idely make them apter to endure then men? |
They ar our cloggs, not theyr owne. If a man bee |
Chaynd to a Gally, yet the Gally's free. |
Who hath a plough land casts all his seede corne there |
And yet allowes his ground more corne should beare. |
Though Danuby into the sea must flowe |
The Sea receaues the Rhene, Volga, and Po, |
By nature, wch gaue it this liberty. |
Thou loust, but oh canst thou loue it and mee? |
Likenesse glews loue, and then, if so |thou| doe |
To make vs loue and like, must |I| change too?
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