The Bride by Samuel Rowlands
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Besse, of such shapes, when your turne coms to marry A carefull mynd, in choyse of husband beare, For if your browes from former smothnes varry, Thinke on this speach, _It commeth with a feare:_ Which I am past, perplexe me no feare can. Being sure I haue a constant honest man. _Iane_. Belieue you haue, and t'is enough they say, But you and I agree not in a mynde, I read in storyes men will run astray, Yet make their foolish wiues beleeue th'are kind: And therefore since they are so cunning knowne He keepe my selfe a maide and trust to none. Had I one sutor swore himselfe loue-sicke, Another for his Mistris sake would die, A third thorow _Cupids_ power growne lunaticke, A fourth that languishing past hope did lye: And so fift, sixt, and seauenth in loues passion, My Maiden-head for them should ner'e change fashion. _Aeneas_ told many a cogging tale, To Dido that renowned worthy Queene, And _Iason_ with his flatterings did preuaile, Yet falser knaues in loue were neuer seene: And at this instant hower, as they were then, |
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