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To shewe thee, I am naked first, why than [125]
What needst thou haue more couering then a man?
Elegie .8
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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