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Commun ["Good wee mvst loue, and mvst hate ill"]

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Good wee mvst loue, and mvst hate ill
For ill is ill, And good, good still,
But there are things indifferent,
Which wee may nether hate nor loue;
But one and then another proue
As wee shall finde our fancy bent.

If then at first wise Nature hadd
Made women either good, or badd
Then some wee might hate, and some chuse
But since shee did them soe create
That wee may nether loue nor hate
Only this rests, all all may vse.

If they were good, it would bee seene
Good is as visible as greene,
And to all eyes it selfe betraies
If they were bad they could not last
Bad doth it selfe and others waste
Soe they deserue nor blame nor praise.

But they are ours, as fruites are ours
Hee that but tastes, hee that deuoures
And hee which leaues all doth as well
Changd loues, are but changd sortes of meate.
And when hee hath the karnell eate
Who doth nott flinge awaie the shell|
Fynis
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