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| Stagg Dogg, and each wch from or towards [238] |
| Is payd with life, or pray, or doing dyes |
| ffate grudges vs all, and doth subtilly lay |
| A Scourge 'gaynst w.ch wee had forgot to pray. |
| Hee that at sea prayes for more wind, as well |
| Vnder the Pole may begg cold, heate in hell. |
| What are wee then,? how little more |alas| |
| Is man now then, before hee was, hee was? |
| Nothing for vs wee are for nothing fitt |
| Chance or our selues still disproportion it |
| Wee haue no will nor power, nor sence, I lye |
| I should not then thus feele this misery. |
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| To M.rs M. H. |
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| Madd paper stay and grudge not heere to burne |
| With all those Sonns w.ch my braine did create |
| At least lye hidd with mee till thou returne |
| To raggs agayne, wch was thy natiue state |
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| What though thou haue enough vnworthynesse |
| To come vnto greate place as others doe? |
| That's much, emboldens, pulls, thrusts, I confesse |
| But that's not all, thou shouldst bee wicked too |
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| And that thou canst not learne, or not of mee. |
| Yet thou wilt goe. Goe since thou go'st to her |
| Who lacks but faults to bee a Prince, for shee |
| Truth, whome they dare to* pardon, dares peferre |
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| But when thou comst to that perplexing eye |
| W.ch æqually claymes Loue, and reverence |
| Thou wilt not long dispute it, thou wilt dye |
| And, hauing |little| now,* haue then |no| sence.
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