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Crueltie, having such Divine / Fayre eyes: Doost thou thinke that when death, / hath tooke my breath: / That I will ende these cries of mine. / No, no, thou art deceit'd for then, / my sprite agen, / Shall followe thee fro[m] place to place, / Exclayming on thy crueltie, / voide of pittie. & etc. // FINIS. /
Ode. / 47.COme, come Simonid, and Anacreon, / Come and laye your money to mine: / And let us goe and finde out Corydon: / And be once dronke with new wine. / Boye: bring hyther the greatest glasse, / And fyll, though it runne tyll to morrowe. / Heere holde my Anacre-on quaffe, / When we are droonke, we have no sorrowe. / But first I would thy Bathyll were / Come with her Lute, that we might daunce. / And that our olde Ronsard of France, / With his Cassandra too were here. / And what sayst Simon'd shall we send, / For our Wenches, now at beginning: / Hâ, he that loves not Wine, and Women, / Will never make a holsome eude. /
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Odellet. / 48.DIan, if it might come to passe: / Or that I might have my desire: / I would to the Gods that I were, / Turned into thy looking Glasse. / Or to the pillowe of this bead: / Whereon thou layst thy daintie head. / Or to water, that I might wash thee: / Or to thy roabe, that thou mightst weare mee: / Or that hang here on thy teatine, / I would I were these pearles of thine. / Or my Dian, to tell thee true, / I would I could be but thy shew. // Odellet. /
49.SOme will sing the great feates of Armes / of Rome: some other the alarmes / of Theb[e]s: and some other of Troye, / And hath the sledge, and the esroye, / But what have I to doo with warriers: / Meddle I then with those that fit: / No, no, I nere hurt any yet: / Nor nere men to come among soldiers. / I care not for the Thracian God: / I am no man that seeketh blood: / But like the olde Poët Annacron, / It pleases mee well to be Biberon. / And thus in a Sellor to quaffe, / So that some Wench be by to lauffe. / And with Bacchus, and Citherais, / I meane to spend all my whole dayes. / [Printer's Mark of "D.iii."] /
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