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| Are Sun, Moon, or Stars by law forbidden |
| To smile where they list, or bend away their light? |
| Are Birds divorc'd, or are they chidden |
| If they leave their meat, or lie abroad all night? |
| Beasts do no joyntures lose |
| Though they new lovers choose, |
| But we are made worse than those. |
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| Who e're rigg'd fair ships to lie in harbours, |
| And not to seek lands, or not to deal with all? |
| Or build fair houses, set trees, and arbors, |
| Only to lock up, or else to let them fall? |
| Good is not good unless |
| A thousand it possess, |
| But doth waste with greediness. |
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| The Dream. |
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| Dear love, for nothing less than thee |
| Would I have broke this happy dream, |
| It was a theame |
| For reason, much too strong for phantasie, |
| Therefore thou wak'dst me wisely; yet |
| My dream thou breakest not, but continuest it, |
| Thou art so true, that thoughts of thee suffice |
| To make dreams truths, and fables histories; |
| Enter these arms, for since thou thoughtst it best, |
| Not to dream all my dream, let's act the rest. |
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| As lightning, or a Tapers light, |
| Thine eyes, and not thy noyse wak'd me; |
| Yet I thought thee |
| (For thou lov'st truth) an Angel, at first sight,
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