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As Satires watch the Sunns vprise, will stay [f. 111v]
Wayting when your eys opened, lett out day;
Only desired, because your face we see;
Others neere yow, shall whispering speake,
And wagers lay, at wch side day will breake,
And winn by observing then, whose hand it is,
And opens first a Curten, Hers, or His;
This wilbe tried to morrow after nyne
Till wch hower, we thy day enlarge, O Valentine.|
Eclogue 1613 December 26.|
Allophanes finding Idios in the Countrey in the
Christmas reprehends his absence from the Court,
At the mariadge of the Earle of Sommersett.
Idios gives an accompt* of his purpose therein,
And of his absence there.|
Alloph.
Vnseasonable man, Statue of Ice
What could to Countreys sollitude entice
Thee, in this yeares cold, and decrepitt tyme?
Natures instinct drawes to the warmer clime.
Even small birdes, who by that courage dare

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