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Bait ["Come liue with mee, and bee my loue"]

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Come liue with mee, and bee my loue
And wee shall some new pleasures proue,
Of golden sands, and cristall brookes
With silken lines, and siluer hookes

Then will the Riuer whispering run
Warmd by thy eies, more then the Svn,
And there the inamourd fish will staie,
Begging, them selues they may bee traie

When thou wilt swim in that liue Bath
Each fish which every channell hath
Will amoruslye to thee swime,
Gladder to catch thee then thou him.

If thou to bee soe seene beest loth
By Sun or Moone, thou darkenest both
And if my Hart haue leaue to see
I need not their light hauinge thee.

Lett others freeze with Anglinge reedes
And cutt their leggs with shells, and weedes.
Or trecherously poore fish besett
With strangling snare or windowy nett

Lett course bold hand from slymie nest
The Bedded fish in banks owtwrest
Or curious Traitors sleaue silke flies
Bewitch poore fishes wandringe eyes:

For thee thou needst no such deceite
For thou thy selfe art thine owne bayte
That fish that is not caught there by,
Alass is wiser farr then I.| [CW: Good]
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