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| 26 | <blockquote>
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| 27 | <blockquote>
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| 28 | <blockquote><b><font size=+1>Pastime with good company</font> </b>
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| 29 | <blockquote>Pastime with good company
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| 30 | <br>I love and shall until I die.
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| 31 | <br>Grudge who likes, but none deny,
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| 32 | <br>So God be pleased, thus live will I.
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| 33 | <br>For my pastance:
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| 34 | <br>Hunt, sing, and dance.
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| 35 | <br>My heart is set!
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| 36 | <br>All goodly sport
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| 37 | <br>For my comfort.
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| 38 | <br>Who shall me let?
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| 39 | <p>Youth must have some dalliance,
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| 40 | <br>Of good or ill some pastance.
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| 41 | <br>Company I think then best --
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| 42 | <br>All thoughts and fantasies to digest.
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| 43 | <br>For idleness
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| 44 | <br>Is chief mistress
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| 45 | <br>Of vices all.
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| 46 | <br>Then who can say
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| 47 | <br>But mirth and play
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| 48 | <br>Is best of all?
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| 49 | <p>Company with honesty
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| 50 | <br>Is virtue -- vices to flee.
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| 51 | <br>Company is good and ill,
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| 52 | <br>But every man has his free will.
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| 53 | <br>The best ensue.
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| 54 | <br>The worst eschew.
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| 55 | <br>My mind shall be.
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| 56 | <br>Virtue to use.
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| 57 | <br>Vice to refuse.
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| 58 | <br>Thus shall I use me!<p> <p> </blockquote>
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| 59 | </blockquote>
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| 60 | </blockquote>
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| 61 | <b>
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| 62 | <font size=+1>Alas, what shall I do for love?</font> </b>
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| 63 | <p>Alas, what shall I do for love?
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| 64 | <br>For love, alas, what shall I do?
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| 65 | <br>Since now so kind
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| 66 | <br>I do you find
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| 67 | <br>To kepe you me unto.
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| 68 | <br>Alasse!
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| 69 | <p> <blockquote> <blockquote>
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| 70 | <blockquote>
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| 71 | <blockquote>
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| 72 | <b>
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| 73 | <font size=+1>Oh my heart</font> </b>
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| 74 | <p>Oh my heart, and oh my heart,
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| 75 | <br>My hart it is so sore.
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| 76 | <br>Since I must from my love depart,
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| 77 | <br>And know no cause wherefore.
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| 78 | </blockquote>
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| 79 | </blockquote>
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| 81 |
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| 82 | <br>
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| 83 | <br>
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| 84 | <blockquote><b><font size=+1>The time of youth is to be spent</font> </b>
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| 85 | <blockquote>The time of youth is to be spent,
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| 86 | <br>But vice in it should be forfent.
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| 87 | <br>Pastimes there be I note truly
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| 88 | <br>Which one may use and vice deny.
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| 89 | <br>And they be pleasant to God and man:
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| 90 | <br>Those should we covet when we can.
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| 91 | <br>As feats of arms, and such other
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| 92 | <br>Wherby activeness one may utter.
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| 93 | <br>Comparisons in them may lawfully be set,
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| 94 | <br>For, thereby, courage is surely out fet.
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| 95 | <br>Vertue it is, then, youth for to spend
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| 96 | <br>In good disports which it does fend.<p> </p>
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| 97 | <p> </p>
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| 98 | </blockquote>
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| 99 | </blockquote>
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| 100 | </blockquote>
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| 101 | <b>
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| 102 | <font size=+1>Alac! Alac! What shall I do?</font> </b>
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| 103 | <blockquote>Alac! Alac! What shall I do?
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| 104 | <br>For care is cast in to my heart,
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| 105 | <br>And true love locked thereto.
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| 106 | <br>
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| 107 | <p>
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| 108 | <br> </p>
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| 109 | <blockquote>
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| 110 | <blockquote><b><font size=+1>Green grows the holly</font> </b>
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| 111 | <p>Green grows the holly.
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| 112 | <br>So does the ivy.
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| 113 | <br>Though winter's blasts blow never so high,
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| 114 | <br>Green grows the holly.
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| 115 | <p>As the holly grows green
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| 116 | <br>And never changes hue,
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| 117 | <br>So I am -- ever have been --
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| 118 | <br>unto my lady true.
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| 119 | <p>As the holly grows green
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| 120 | <br>With ivy all alone,
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| 121 | <br>When flowers can not be seen
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| 122 | <br>And greenwood leaves be gone.
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| 123 | <p>Now unto my lady
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| 124 | <br>Promise to her I make:
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| 125 | <br>From all other, only
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| 126 | <br>to her, I me betake.
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| 127 | <p>Adieu, my own lady.
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| 128 | <br>Adieu, my special
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| 129 | <br>Who hath my heart truly,
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| 130 | <br>Be sure, and ever shall.<p> <p> </blockquote>
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| 131 | </blockquote>
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| 132 | </blockquote>
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| 133 | </blockquote>
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| 134 | </blockquote>
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| 135 | <b>
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| 136 | <font size=+1>Who so that will all feats obtain</font> </b>
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| 137 | <blockquote>Who so that will all feats obtain
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| 138 | <br>In love he must be without disdain.
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| 139 | <br>For love enforces all noble kind,
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| 140 | <br>And disdain discourages all gentle mind.
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| 141 | <br>Wherefore, to love and be not loved
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| 142 | <br>Is worse than death? Let it be proved!
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| 143 | <br>Love encourages, and makes one bold;
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| 144 | <br>Disdain abates and makes him cold.
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| 145 | <br>Love is given to God and man;
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| 146 | <br>To woman also, I think the same.
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| 147 | <br>But disdain is vice, and should be refused,
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| 148 | <br>Yet never the less it is too much used.
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| 149 | <br>Great pity it were, love for to compel
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| 150 | <br>With disdain, both false and subtle.
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| 151 | <blockquote>
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| 152 | <blockquote>
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| 153 | <p>
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| 154 | <br> </p>
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| 155 | <p><b><font size=+1>If love now reigned</font> </b>
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| 156 | <p>If love now reigned as it has been
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| 157 | <br>And were rewarded as it has seen,
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| 158 | <br>Noble men then would surely ensearch
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| 159 | <br>All ways whereby they might it reach.
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| 160 | <br>But envy reigns with such disdain
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| 161 | <br>And causes lovers outwardly to refrain,
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| 162 | <br>Which puts them to more and more,
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| 163 | <br>Inwardly, most grievous and sore:
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| 164 | <br>The fault in whom I cannot set,
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| 165 | <br>But let them tell who love does get.
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| 166 | <br>To lovers I put now sure this case:
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| 167 | <br>Which of their loves does get them grace?
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| 168 | <br>And unto them which doth it know
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| 169 | <br>Better than do I, I think it so.
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| 170 | <br>
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| 171 | <br>
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| 172 | <br>
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| 173 | <p> <blockquote><b><font size=+1>Whereto should I express</font> </b>
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| 174 | <blockquote>Whereto should I express
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| 175 | <br>My inward heaviness?
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| 176 | <br>No mirth can make me fain,
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| 177 | <br>'Till that we meet again.
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| 178 | <p>Do way, dear heart, not so.
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| 179 | <br>Let no thought you dismay.
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| 180 | <br>Though you now part me from,
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| 181 | <br>We shall meet when we may.
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| 182 | <p>When I remember me
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| 183 | <br>Of your most gentle mind,
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| 184 | <br>It may in no wise agree
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| 185 | <br>That I should be unkind.
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| 186 | <p>The daisy delectable,
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| 187 | <br>The violet waning and blue,
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| 188 | <br>You are not variable --
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| 189 | <br>I love you and no more.
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| 190 | <p>I make you fast and sure;
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| 191 | <br>It is to me great pain
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| 192 | <br>Thus long to endure
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| 193 | <br>'Till that we meet again.<p> <p> </blockquote>
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| 194 | </blockquote>
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| 195 | </blockquote>
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| 196 | <b>
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| 197 | <font size=+1>Though that men do call it dotage</font> </b>
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| 198 | <blockquote>Though that men do call it dotage,
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| 199 | <br>Who loves not wants courage.
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| 200 | <br>And whosoever may love get
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| 201 | <br>From Venus surely he must it fetch,
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| 202 | <br>Or else from her which is her heir.
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| 203 | <br>And she to him must seem most fair.
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| 204 | <br>Where eye and mind do both agree;
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| 205 | <br>There is no but -- there must it be!
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| 206 | <br>The eye does look and represent,
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| 207 | <br>But mind affirms with full consent.
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| 208 | <br>Thus am I fixed without grudge:
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| 209 | <br>My eye with heart does me so judge.
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| 210 | <br>Love maintains all noble courage;
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| 211 | <br>Who love disdains is all of the village.
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| 212 | <br>Such lovers, though they take pain,
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| 213 | <br>It were pity they should obtain.
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| 214 | <br>For often times where they do sue
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| 215 | <br>They hinder lovers that would be true.
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| 216 | <br>For who so loves should love but one.
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| 217 | <br>Change who so will, I will be none.
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| 218 | <br>
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| 219 | <br> <p> </p>
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| 220 | </blockquote>
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| 221 | <b>
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| 222 | <font size=+1>Departure is my chief pain</font> </b>
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| 223 | <p>Departure is my chief pain
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| 224 | <br>I trust right well of return again.
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| 225 | <br>
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| 226 | <blockquote>
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| 227 | <br>
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| 228 | <blockquote><b><font size=+1>Without discord</font> </b>
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| 229 | <blockquote>Without discord
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| 230 | <br>And both accord,
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| 231 | <br>Now let us be.
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| 232 | <br>Both harts alone
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| 233 | <br>To set in one,
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| 234 | <br>Best seems me.
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| 235 | <br>For when one sole
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| 236 | <br>Is in the dole
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| 237 | <br>Of love's pain,
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| 238 | <br>Then help must have
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| 239 | <br>Himself to save
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| 240 | <br>And love to obtain.
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| 241 | <p>Where for now we
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| 242 | <br>That lovers be,
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| 243 | <br>Let us now pray:
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| 244 | <br>Once love sure
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| 245 | <br>For to procure
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| 246 | <br>Without denial.
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| 247 | <br>Where love so sues
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| 248 | <br>There no heart rues,
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| 249 | <br>But condescend.
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| 250 | <br>If contrary,
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| 251 | <br>What remedy?
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| 252 | <br>God it amend.
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| 253 | <p>
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| 254 | <br> </blockquote>
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| 255 | </blockquote>
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| 256 | </blockquote>
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| 257 | <b>
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| 258 | <font size=+1>Though some say that youth rules me</font>
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| 259 | <br><font size=+1>(possibly by King Henry VIII)</font> </b>
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| 260 | <blockquote>Though some say that youth rules me,
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| 261 | <br>I trust in age to tarry.
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| 262 | <br>God and my right, and my duty,
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| 263 | <br>From them shall I never vary,
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| 264 | <br>Though some say that youth rules me.
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| 265 | <p>I pray you all that aged be
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| 266 | <br>How well did you your youth carry?
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| 267 | <br>I think some worse of each degree.
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| 268 | <br>Therein a wager lay dare I,
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| 269 | <br>Though some say that youth rules me.
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| 270 | <p>Pastimes of youth some time among
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| 271 | <br>None can say but necessary.
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| 272 | <br>I hurt no man, I do no wrong,
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| 273 | <br>I love true where I did marry,
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| 274 | <br>Though some say that youth rules me.
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| 275 | <p>Then soon discuss that hence we must
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| 276 | <br>Pray we to God and Saint Mary
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| 277 | <br>That all amend, and here an end.
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| 278 | <br>Thus says the King, the eighth Harry,
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| 279 | <br>Though some say that youth rules me.
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| 280 | <br>
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| 281 | <br>
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| 282 | <br>
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| 283 | <br>
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| 284 | <blockquote><b><font size=+1>Who so that will for grace sue</font> </b>
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| 285 | <p>Who so that will for grace sue,
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| 286 | <br>His intent must needs be true,
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| 287 | <br>And love her in heart and deed,
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| 288 | <br>Else it were pity that he should speed.
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| 289 | <br>Many one says that love is ill,
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| 290 | <br>But those be they which know no skill.
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| 291 | <p>Or else, because they may not obtain,
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| 292 | <br>They would that others should it disdain.
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| 293 | <br>But love is a thing given by God:
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| 294 | <br>In that, therefore, can be none odd,
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| 295 | <br>But perfect in deed, and between two.
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| 296 | <br>Where fore, then, should we it eschew?</blockquote>
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| 297 |
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| 298 | <br>
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| 299 | <br>
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| 300 | <p><b><font size=+1>Lusty Youth should us ensue!</font> </b>
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| 301 | <p>Lusty Youth should us ensue!
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| 302 | <br>His merry heart shall sure all rue.
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| 303 | <br>For whatsoever they do him tell
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| 304 | <br>It is not for him, we know it well.
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| 305 | <p>For they would have him his liberty refrain,
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| 306 | <br>And all merry company for to disdain.
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| 307 | <br>But I will not do whatsoever they say,
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| 308 | <br>But follow his mind in all that we may.
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| 309 | <p>How should youth himself best use
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| 310 | <br>But all disdainers for to refuse?
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| 311 | <br>Youth has as chief assurance
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| 312 | <br>Honest mirth with virtue's pastance.
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| 313 | <p>For in them consists great honour,
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| 314 | <br>Though that disdainers would therein put error.
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| 315 | <br>For they do sue to get them grace --
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| 316 | <br>All only riches to purchase.
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| 317 | <p>With good order, counsel, and equity,
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| 318 | <br>Goode Lord grant us our mansion to be.
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| 319 | <br>For without their good guidance
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| 320 | <br>Youth should fall in great mischance.
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| 321 | <p>For Youth is frail and prompt to do
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| 322 | <br>As well vices as virtues to ensue.
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| 323 | <br>Where fore by these he must be guided,
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| 324 | <br>And virtues pastance must therein be used.
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| 325 | <p>Now unto God this prayer we make,
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| 326 | <br>That this rude play may well betake
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| 327 | <br>And that we may our faults amend
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| 328 | <br>And bliss obtain at our last end. Amen.
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| 329 | <br>
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| 330 | <br>
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| 331 | <br> </blockquote>
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| 332 | <b>
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| 333 | <font size=+1>Let not us that young men be</font>
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| 334 | <br><font size=+1>(possibly by King Henry VIII)</font> </b>
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| 335 | <blockquote>Let not us that young men be
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| 336 | <br>From Venus' ways banished to be, banished to be.
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| 337 | <br>Though that Age with great disdain
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| 338 | <br>Would have Youth love to refrain, love to refrain,
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| 339 | <br>In their minds consider they must
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| 340 | <br>How they did in their most lust.
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| 341 | <p>For, if they were in like case
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| 342 | <br>And would then have gotten grace,
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| 343 | <br>They may not now than gainsay
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| 344 | <br>That which then was most their joy.
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| 345 | <br>Where for indeed, the truth to say,
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| 346 | <br>It is for Youth the metest play.<p> </blockquote>
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