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Platonique Loue

I haue done one brauer thinge
Then all the worthies did,
Yet a brauer thence doth springe,
Which is to keepe that hid.

It were but madnes, now to impart
The skill of Specular stone;
When hee which cann haue learnd the art
To cutt itt, can finde none.

Soe if I now should vtter this
Others (because no more
Such stuffe to worke vppon there is)
Would loue, but as before.

But hee who louelines within
Hath found, all outward loathes;
For hee who colour loues, and skin,
Loues but theire oldest cloathes.

If as I haue yow allso doe
Vertue attird in woman see
And dare loue that and saie soe too
And forgett the hee, and shee;

And if this loue, though placed so
From profane men yow hide
Which will no faith on this bestowe
Or if they doe deride [CW: Then]
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