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016.CT1.001 Although thy hand, & faith, & good workes too,
016.CT1.002 Haue seald thy loue, w%5ch%6 nothing could vndoe,
016.CT1.003 Yea though thou fall back, that Apostasee
016.CT1.004 Confirme thy loue; yet much much I feare thee.
016.CT1.005 Woemen are like the Arts, forc'd vnto none, [CW: Open]
016.CT1.006 Open to all searchers; vnpris'd if vnknowne. [p. 11
016.CT1.007 If I haue caught a bird, & lett him flye,
016.CT1.008 Another fowler vsinge those meanes as I
016.CT1.009 May catch the same bird, & as these things bee,
016.CT1.010 Woemen are made for man, not him, nor mee.
016.CT1.011 ffoxes, and goates, all beasts, change when they please,
016.CT1.012 Shall woemen, more hott, wilie, wild these these
016.CT1.013 Bee bound to one man? and did nature then,
016.CT1.014 Idly make them apter to endure then men?
016.CT1.015 They are our Cloggs, not their owne, if a man bee
016.CT1.016 Chain'd to a gallie, yet the gallie is free.
016.CT1.017 Who hath a plough'd land, casts all his seed corne there
016.CT1.018 And yet allowes his ground more corne should beare.
016.CT1.019 Though Danuby into the sea must flowe,
016.CT1.020 The sea receiues Rhene, Volga, and Po.
016.CT1.021 By nature w%5ch%6 gaue it this libertie
016.CT1.022 Thou lou'st, but oh canst thou loue it and mee?
016.CT1.023 Likenes glues loue: Then if soe thou doe
016.CT1.024 To make vs alike, & loue, must I change to?
016.CT1.025 More then thy hate I hate it: rather lett mee
016.CT1.026 Allowe her change, then change as ofte as shee.
016.CT1.027 And so not teach, but force my opinion
016.CT1.028 To loue not any one, nor euery one,
016.CT1.029 To liue in one land is captiuitie
016.CT1.030 To run all countreyes a wild rogerie.
016.CT1.031 Waters stinck soone if in one place they bide,
016.CT1.032 And in the vast sea are worss putrifide
016.CT1.033 But when they kiss on banck, and leauing this
016.CT1.034 Neuer look back, but y%5e%6 next banck doe kisse [CW: Then]
016.CT1.035 Then are they purest. Change is the nurserie [p. 12
016.CT1.036 Of Musick, Ioy, Life, and Eternitie.
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