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016.H06.0HE  >>P.<<  Elegie .8
016.H06.001  Although thy hand and fayth, and good workes too
016.H06.002  Haue seald thy loue, w.%5ch%6 nothing should vndoe
016.H06.003  Yea though >%V%5thou%6< fall back, that Apostacy
016.H06.004  Confirme thy loue, yet much much I feare thee
016.H06.005  Woemen ar like the Arts, forc'd vnto none
016.H06.006  Open to all searchers, vnprisd if vnknowne.
016.H06.007  If I haue caught a bird, and let him flie
016.H06.008  Another fowler, vsing the meanes as I, 
016.H06.009  May catch the same bird, and as these things bee
016.H06.010  Woemen ar made for men, not him, nor mee
016.H06.011  Foxes, and Goates, all beasts, change when they please
016.H06.012  Shall woemen, more hot, wily, wild then these,
016.H06.013  Bee bound to one man? and did nature then
016.H06.014  Idely make them apter to endure then men?
016.H06.015  They ar our cloggs, not theyr owne. If a man bee
016.H06.016  Chaynd to a Gally, yet the Gally's free.
016.H06.017  Who hath a plough land casts all his seede corne there
016.H06.018  And yet allowes his ground more corne should beare.
016.H06.019  Though Danuby into the sea must flowe
016.H06.020  The Sea receaues the Rhene, Volga, and Po,
016.H06.021  By nature, w%5ch%6 gaue it this liberty.
016.H06.022  Thou loust, but oh canst thou loue it and mee?
016.H06.023  Likenesse glews loue, and then, if so |thou| doe
016.H06.024  To make vs loue and like, must |I| change too? [CW: More%-%-]
016.H06.025  More then thy hate I hate it, rather let mee [f. 66v]
016.H06.026  Allow her change then change as oft as shee.
016.H06.027  And so not theach->>teach< but force my opinion
016.H06.028  To loue, not any one, nor every one.
016.H06.029  To liue in one land, is Captiuity,
016.H06.030  To runne all countryes, a wild roguery.
016.H06.031  Waters stinke soone if in one place they bide
016.H06.032  And in the vast Sea are worse putrifyd.
016.H06.033  But when they kisse one banke, and leauing this
016.H06.034  Never looke back, but the next banke do kisse
016.H06.035  Then ar they pur'st->>pur'est<, Change is the Nursery
016.H06.036  Of Musick Ioye life and Eternity.
016.H06.0SSom  
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