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Yet as a firme house, though the Carpenter [215]
Perish, doth stand; As an Embassader
Is safe, how e're the king bee in daunger
So though I languish prest with melancholy
My verse the strict mapp of my misery
Shall liue to see that for whose want I dye
Therefore I enuy them, and doe repent
That from vnhappy mee things happy are sent
Yet, as a picture or bare sacrament
Accept these lines, and if in them there bee
Merit of Loue, bestow that Loue on mee.
To Mr T. W.
Hast thee harsh verse, as fast as thy lame measure
Will giue thee leaue, to him my payne and pleasure
I haue giuen thee (and yet thou art too weake)
ffeete, and a reasoning Soule and Tongue to speake
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Tell him, all questions w.ch men haue defended
Both of the place and paynes of Hell ar ended,
And tis decreed our Hell is but priuation
Of him, at least in this Earths habitation,
And tis where I am, where in every streete
Infections follow, overtake, and meete
Liue I or dye, by you my loue is sent
You ar my pawnes or else my Testament

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