EBBA 32224
Huntington Library - Britwell
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The panges of Love and lovers fttes.
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WAs not good Kyng Salamon
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Ravished in sondry wyse
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with every livelie Paragon
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That glistered before his eyes
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If this be true as trewe it was
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Lady lady.
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why should not I serve you alas
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My deare lady.
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When Paris was enamoured
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with Helena dame bewties peare
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whom Venus first him promised
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To venter on and not to feare
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what sturdy stormes endured he
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Lady lady
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To winne her loveer it would be
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My deare ladye.
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Knowe ye not howe Troylus
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Languished and lost his joye
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with fittes and fevers mervailous
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For Cresseda that dwelt in Troye
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Tyll pytie planted in her brest
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ladie ladie.
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To slepe with him & graunt him rest
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My deare ladie.
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I read somtime howe venterous
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Leander was his love to please
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who swomme the waters perillous
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Of Abidon those surginge sease
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To come to her where as she lay
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ladie ladie.
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Tyll he was drowned by the waye
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my deare ladie.
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what say ye then to Priamus
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That promised his love to mete
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And founde by fortune marveilous
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A bloudie cloth before his feete
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For Tysbies sake hymselfe he slewe
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ladie ladie
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To prove that he was a lover trewe
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my deare ladie.
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when Hercules for Eronie
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murdered a monster fell
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He put him selfe in jeoperdie
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Perillous as the stories tell
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Reskewinge her upon the shore
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ladie ladie.
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whiche els by lot had died therfore
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my deare ladie.
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Anaxaretis bewtifull
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when Iphis did beholde and see
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with sighes and sobbinges pitifull
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That Paragon longe wooed he
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And when he could not wynne her so
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Ladye ladye
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He went and honge him selfe for woe
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My deare ladye.
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Besides these matters marveilous
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Good Lady yet I can tell the more
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The Gods have ben full amourous
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As Jupiter by learned lore
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who changed his shape as fame hath spred
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lady ladye.
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To come to Alcumenaes bed.
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My deare ladye.
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And if bewtie breed such blisfulnesse
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Enamouring both God and man
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Good Lady let no wilfulnesse
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Exuperate your bewtye then
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To slaye the hertes that yeld & crave
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ladye ladye
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The graunt of your goodwil to have
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My deare ladye.
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Finis.
Quod W. E.
Imprinted at London in Smithfeld
in the parish of Saynt Barthel-
mewes Hospitall by
Richard Lant.
An.Dmni. M.D.lix. xxii. Mar:
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