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Nor by the eies water call a Maladie Desperately hott, or changinge feuourishly: I had not taught thee then the Alphabet Of flowers how they deuisefully being sett, And bound vp, might with speechless secrecy Deliuer arrands, mvtely, and Mutuallye: Remember since all thy words vsd to bee To everie Sutour, I if my freinds agree Since howsehold charmes thy hvsbands name to teach Were all the Louetricks, that thy witt could reach And since an howres discourse could scarce haue made One answer in thee. And that ill arrayd In broken prouerbs, and torne sentences, Thou art not by soe many duties his That from the worlds common hauinge seuered thee Inlayd thee nether to bee seene, nor see, As myne which haue with amarous delicacies, Refind thee into a blisfull Paradise Thy graces and good words my creatures bee I planted knowledg, and lifes tree in thee Which oh shall strangers tast? mvst I alass Frame, and enamell Plate, and drinke in glasse Chafe waxe for others vales? breake a colts force And leaue him then beinge made a ready horse?| Once and but once fownd in thy companie All thy supposd escapes are layd on mee And as a theife at Barr is questioned there By all the men that haue been robd that yeare. |
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