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| By Nature, wch gaue it, this libertie [f. 26v] |
| Thou lov'st, but oh! can'st thou loue it, and Mee? |
| Likenes glewes loue; then if soe thou doe, |
| To make vs lyke, and love, Must I chang too? |
| More then thy hate, I hate it: Rather lett Mee |
| Allowe her Change, then Change as oft as Shee; |
| And soe not teach, but force my Opinion |
| To love not anie One, nor Euerie One. |
| To liue in one land, is Captiuitie, |
| To runne all Countries a wild Roguerie. |
| Waters stinck soone if in one place they bide, |
| And in the vast Sea are worse putrified. |
| But when they kisse one Banck, and leaving this |
| Never looke backe, but the next Banck doe kisse, |
| Then are they purest. Change is the Nurcerie |
| Of Musick, Ioye, Lyfe, and Aeternitie. |
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| Elegie .6. |
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| Once, and but once found in thy Companie. |
| All thy suppos'd Escapes are layd on Mee. |
| And as a Theife at Barr is questioned there |
| By all the Men, that haue bene rob'd that yeare, |
| Soe am I (by this trayterous Meanes surpriz'd)
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