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To tempt thee, and procure her widdowhood, |
My nurse, (for I had one,) because I'm cold, |
Divorc'd her selfe, the cause being in me, |
That I can take no new in Bigamye, |
Not my will onely, but power doth withhold, |
Hence comes it, that these Rimes which never had |
Mother, want matter, and they onely have |
A little forme, the which their Father gave; |
They are prophane, imperfect, oh, too bad |
To be counted Children of Poëtry |
Except confirm'd and Bishoped by thee. |
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To M. R. W. |
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If, as mine is, thy life a slumber be, |
Seeme, when thou read'st these lines, to dreame of me, |
Never did Morpheus nor his brother weare |
Shapes so like those Shapes, whom they would appeare, |
As this my letter is like me, for it |
Hath my name, words, hand, feet, heart, minde and wit; |
It is my deed of gift of me to thee, |
It is my Will, my selfe the Legacie. |
So thy retyrings I love, yea envie, |
Bred in thee by a wise melancholy, |
That I rejoyce, that unto where thou art, |
Though I stay here, I can thus send my heart, |
As kindly as any enamored Patient |
His Picture to his absent Love hath sent.
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