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Womans Constancy
Now thou hast lou'd mee one whole day
To morrow when thou leaust what wilt thou say?
Wilt thou then antidate some new made vowe
or say that now
Wee are not iust those persons w.ch wee were
Or that oaths made in reverentaill feare
Of Loue and his wrath any may forweare
(ffor as true deaths true marriages vntye
So Louers Contracts, Images of those
Bind but till sleepe, deaths Image, them vnlose?)
Or yor owne end to iustify
ffor hauing purposd change and falshood, you
Can haue no way but falshood to bee true.
Vayne Lunatique agaynst these scapes I could
Dispute, and conquer if I would
W.ch I abstayne to doe
ffor by to morrow I may thinke so too.
*
ffor my first Twenty yeares since yesterday
I scarse beleeue you could bee gon away
And fourty more I fedd on fauours past
And fourty on hopes that youu wish they might last
Teares haue one hundred drownd, sighs blowne out two
One thousand I did nothing thinke or doe
Or not deni'd all beeing on thoughts of you
Or in one thousand more forgot that too
Yet thinke* not this long life, but thinke that I
Am, by beeing dead, im̀„ortall. Can Ghosts dye?

[CW: Tis true__]