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Witch ["I fix myne eye on thine, and there"]


Witchcraft by a Picture

I fix myne eye on thine, and there
Pitty my picture burning in thine eye
My picture drownd in a transparant teare;
When I looke lower I espie,
Hadst thou the wicked skill,
By pictures made, and marrd to kill,
How many waies mights thou performe thy will?

But now I haue drunk thy sweet salt teares,
And though thou, powre more Ile departe,
My Picture vanisht, vanisht feares
That I can bee endamagd by that art,
Though thou retaine of mee
One Picture more, yet that will bee
Beeing in thyne owne hart, from all mallice free.

The Broken Harte.

Hee is stark mad who euer saies
That hee hath been in loue an hower
Yet not that loue, soe soone decaies
But that it can ten in lesse space deuoure.
Who will beleeve mee if I sweare,
That I haue had the Plague a yeare
Whoe would not laugh att mee, if I should saie
I sawe a flash of powder burne a daie?
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