Mistris Turners
Farewell to all women.
Angell (turn'd Divell) Pride:
by thee I fell
When heere on earth I dwelt
too'th pit of Hell:
Yet spite of all thy Poysons,
I am faire
Now in Gods eyes,
Women by me Beware.
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Mistris Turner.
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1 THou, of all sinnes the first, of all, the highest,
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Because thou fell'st from Heaven before Mans fall,
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Who, when to Happines thou wert the nighest,)
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In envy of the best of all, lost all.
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2 Wo worth that whorish face of thine, which tempted
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Me to more Hells then thou hast vaine attires,
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For which my spotted Soule, is not exempted
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(Without Gods mercy) from eternall fires.
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3 Shee-Divell, (destroyer both of man and Woman,
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That with thy sorcerous Drugges didst catch my Soule:
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To the last Barre Tribunall, thee I summon,
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Where I shall stand all white, thou black and foule.
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4 Washd are my spots away by Christs red passion,
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For I am there whence headlong thou wert throwne:
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And now I glory in triumphant fashion,
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That thou art there whether I should have gone:
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From Heaven thou fellst to Hell, and I being drownd
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In Sinnes, got up and now in Heaven sit Crownd.
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Lady Pride.
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1 THou, of all Woemen worst of all, the basest,
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Who (when I am of Sinnes the worst and proudest,
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And throwne from Heaven me in thy bosome placest;
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And what thy heart lov'd best, now rail'st at loudest.
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2 'Tis not thy hate of Pride, makes thee to cry
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Wo worth my Whorish Face, but tis because
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Thy Pride hath caught her fall, and thou must dye,
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And frighted art with Hels devouring Jawes.
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3 Enough it is for me that I have made thee
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Drunke with my cup: nor care I though thou boast
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That from eternall fires Gods mercy staid thee;
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For say thy soule be sav'd, thy bodyes lost.
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4 As for thy yellowed Ruffes, phantastick Tires,
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Paintings, and Poysonings (now by thee abhorred)
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I laugh to see thee wrap them up in fires,
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For Pride hath more to bewitch many a Forehead.
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And though thy soule should climbe the highest Sphere,
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Ile pluck downe thousands that shall nere come there.
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