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| One like none, and lik'd of none, fittest were, |
| For, things in fashion every man will wear. |
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| Elegie. III. |
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| Although thy hand and faith, and good word too |
| Have seal'd thy love, which nothing should undoe. |
| Yea though thou fall back, that Apostasie |
| Confirms thy love, yet much, much I fear thee. |
| Women are like the Arts, forc'd unto none, |
| Open to'all searchers, unpriz'd if unknown. |
| If I have caught a bird, and let him flie, |
| Another Fouler using those means, as I, |
| May catch the same bird; and, as these things be, |
| Women are made for men, not him nor me. |
| Foxes, goats and all beasts change when they please, |
| Shall women; more hot, wily, wild than these, |
| Be bound to one man, and bid Nature then |
| Idly make them apter to'endure than men; |
| They'are our cloggs, not their own; if a man be |
| Chain'd to a gally, yet the gally'is free. |
| Who hath a plow-land, casts all his seed-corn there, |
| And yet allows his ground more corn should bear; |
| Though Danuby into the sea must flow, |
| The sea receives the Rhine, Volga: and Po, |
| By nature, which gave it, this libertie. |
| Thou lov'st, but oh! canst thou love it and me? |
| Likeness glues love; and if that thou so doe, |
| To make us like and love, must I change too? |
| More than thy hate, I hate'it, rather let me |
| Allow her change, than change as oft as shee, |
| And so not teach, but force my'opinion, |
| To love not any one, nor every one.
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