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| And without such advantage kill me then.| [f. 109] |
| For I could muster vp as well as yow, |
| My Gyants, and my witches too; |
| Wch are vast constancy, and secrettness, |
| But theis I neither looke for nor profess, |
| Kill me as woman, lett me die |
| As a meere man; doe yow but trie |
| Yor passive valour, and yow shall finde than |
| Naked, yow haue ods enough of any man.| |
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| An Epithalamion, on mariage songe on the |
| Lady Elisabeth, and Fredricke Count palatine, |
| being married on St Valentines day. |
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| 1. Haile bishopp Valentine whose day this is |
| All the aire is thy diocis |
| And all the chirping queristers |
| And other birds are thy parishioners |
| Thou marriest every yeare, |
| The lerique larke, and the graue whispering doue, |
| The sparrow that neglects his life for love, |
| The houshould bird with the redd stomacher, |
| Thou makst the blackbird speed as soone, |
| As doth the goldfinch, or the Halcyone, |
| The housband Cocke looks out, and streight is sped,
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[CW: And] |