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Will ["Before I sigh my last gaspe, lett mee breath"]


If hee suckt hers, I let him knowe
Twas not a teare which hee had gott
His drinke was counterfeite, as was his meate,
For eyes which roule towards all, weepe not but sweate.

What ever hee would dictate I writt that
But burnt her letters, when shee writt to mee
And that that fauour made him fatt,
I said, if any titell bee
Conuayd by this; ah what doth itt auaile?
To bee the fortieth name in an entaile.

Thus I reclaimd my Bussard loue to flie
At what, and when, and how, and where I chuse;
Now negligent of sports I lie,
And now as other Falconers vse
I springe a Mistris, sweare, write, sigh and weepe
And the game killd, or lost, goe talke, and sleepe.|

The Will:

Before I sigh my last gaspe, lett mee breath
(Great loue) some legacies; heer I bequeath
Myne eyes to Argus, if myne eyes cann see;
If they bee blynde then loue I giue them thee;
My toung to fame; To Ambassadours my eares,
Too Weomen or the sea my teares
Thou loue hast taught mee heretofore
By making mee serue her, who had twenty more
That I should giue to none, but such as had too mvch before.
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