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Mess ["Send home my long strayd eies to mee,"]

Songs which were made to certaine
Aires that were made before

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Send home my long strayd eies to mee,
Which oh too long haue dwelt on thee:
Yet since there they haue learnt such ill,
Such forcd fashions
And false passions
That they bee
Made by thee
Fitt for no good sight, keep them still.

Send home my harmless hart againe,
Which no vnworthy thought could staine;
Which if it bee taught by thine
To make iestings
Of protestings
And crosse both
Word and Oath
Keepe itt, for then tis none of myne.

Yet send mee back my hart and eyes,
That I may know, and see thy lies
And may laugh, and ioy when thow
Art in Anguish
And dost languish,
For some one
That will none
Or proue as false as thou art now.|
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