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Air ["Twice or thrice had I loued thee,"]


What Plants, Myne, Beasts, Foule, Fish
Can contribute; all ill which all
Prophetts or Poetts spake, and all which shall
Bee annexd in Schedules vnto this, by mee,
Fall on that Man, for ift be a shee
Nature beforehand hath outcurssed mee.|


Aire and Angells.

Twice or thrice had I loued thee,
Before I knew thy face or name
So in a voyce, soe in a shapeles flame
Angells affect vs oft, and worshipt bee
Still when to where thou wert I came
Some louly Glorious nothinge I did see;
But since my Soule whose child loue is,
Takes limmes of flesh, and else could nothing doe.
More subtile then the Parent is
Loue mvst not bee, but take a bodie too
And therfore which thou wert, and who
I bid loue aske, and now
That it assume thy Bodye I allow
And fix it selfe in thy lip, eie, and browe.
Whilst thus to ballast loue I thought
And soe more stedilye to haue gonne,
With warrs, which would sinke admiration,
I saw I had loues Pinnace overfraught,
Every thy haire for Loue to worke vppon
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