An Inconstant Female.
With a reward of her disdaine in equalitie.
To the same tune.
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LOving mortall,
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In love I here exhort all,
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in that estate:
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Love is wasting,
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But everlasting
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in womens hate.
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Why then live ye,
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Or wherefore alwaies give ye
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your teares and praiers
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To fond woman,
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Whose minde, so common,
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respect no teares.
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Oh be ruld, and be advis[]d
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by one hath seen them,
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by one hath known them,
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by one hath found them
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And their loves to small,
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For what must parted be,
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To me is nought at all,
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Once I loved
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But thousand times have proved
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a curious Faire
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Helenes feature
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Beares this coy creature
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and Venus haire,
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Cupids dandling,
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Her tender breasts handling,
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betwixt them lies.
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Love pursued,
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The more I viewed,
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love did more rise.
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She did feed me with delay,
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and swore to have me,
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not once to leave me,
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but vow[]d to love me,
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With the like respect,
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When she another Sweet-heart
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Better did affect,
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Void of sorrow,
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A patience pure I borrow,
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and wait the time:
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She neglectfull,
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Of some respectfull,
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doth let me pine,
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Love increased,
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But could not be released,
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the more I sue,
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She ungratefull.
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To me turnes hatefull.
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false, faire, untrue
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Spend I love, or time of feares,
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I am neglected,
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not once respected,
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but quite rejected,
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And can nothing gaine,
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But false dissembling love,
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Or fond to love in vaine
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Now a Troylus
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I still must live, yet joylesse
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of Cresida:
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Loves mistaken,
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And I forsaken,
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am left for aye:
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Faire she fed me,
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Untill my Daphne fled me,
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with swiftest wings,
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Faire she proved,
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But false she loved
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so Syrens sings
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But now my Love hath proved untrue,
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disdaining pitty,
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to one so witty,
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Ile sing this ditty,
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Thus the note shall sound,
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False-hearted fickle Maids
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Are better lost then found.
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