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Curse ["Who euer guesses, thinks, or dreames hee knowes"]

The Curse.

Who euer guesses, thinks, or dreames hee knowes
Who is my Mistresse, wither by this curse
His, only and only his purse
May some dull hart to loue dispose
And shee yeald then to all that are his foes.
May hee bee scornd by one whome all else scorne,
Forsweare to others what to her hee hath sworne,
With feare of missinge, shame of getting torne.

Madness his sorrowe, Gowte his crampes may hee
Make, but by thinkeinge who made him such;
And may hee feele no touch
Of conscience, but of Fame: and bee
Anguishd, not that twas sinne, but that twas shee;
In earlie and long scarsenesse may he rott
For land, which had bin his, if hee had nott
Himselfe Incestuouslye an heire begott

May hee dreame treason, and beleeue that hee
Ment to performe itt, and confesse, and die
And no record tell why,
His sonnes which none of his may bee,
Inherit nothinge but his, Infamie.
Or may hee soe longe Parasites haue fedd
That hee would faine bee theirs, whome hee hath bred
And at the least bee circumsized for bread

The Venime of all Stepdames, Gamesters gall,
What tyrants, And their Subiects inter wish, [CW: What]
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