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Tis true, tis day. What though it bee? [258]
And will you therefore rise from mee?
Why should wee rise? because tis Light?
Did wee lye downe because t'was night
Loue w,ch in spight of darknesse brought vs hether
Should in despight of Light keepe vs together
2
Light hath no tongue, but is all eye
If it could speake as well as spye
This is the worst that it could say
That beeing well I fayne would stay
And that I loue my hart and honor so
As I would not from him that hath them goe
3
Must businesse thee from hence remoue?
O that's the worst disease of Loue
The poore, the foule, the false Love can
Admitt, but not the busyed man
Hee that hath businesse, and makes Loue, doth doe
Such wrong as if a marryed man should wooe.
The Canonization
ffor Gods sake hold yor tongue, and let me loue
Or chide my palsy or my goute
My fine gray hayres, or ruynd fortune flout
With wealth yor State, yor mind with Arts improue
Take you a course, get you a place
Observe his honor, or his Grace
And the kings reall or his stamped face
Contemplate what you will approue
So you will let mee loue.|

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