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"Now you haue enioyed the Measure of pleasure, indeed I['m] destroyed if you speake of it againe ; for women doe proue neclected, reiected,

when freedome of love is known to other men. Now you haue enioyed me, & all things be free, in faith youle vndoe me if a teltale you bee.

"Then heeres my hart! Ile euer endeuer

that wee will neuer part till death assignes the time.

were itt not you, beleeue me it wold greeue m[e] to doo what I doo; that loue shold be a crime; but it is a fault of soe sweet a degree,

that sure I am perswaded, court nor country be

fr[ee.]"

ffins:

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Once againe to try your forces,
thus I dare thee to the feild;
time is lost that time diuorces

from the pleasures loue doth yeeld.
Ah ha! fyee, fye! itt comes yett still!
itt comes, I, I! doe what you will!

my breath doth passe, my blood doth trickle! was euer lasse in such a pickle?

ffins.

A maid & a younge man.

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A MAN & a younge maid that loued a long time

were tane in a frenzye ithe Midsommer prime;
the maid shee lay drooping, hye;

the man he lay whopping, hey, the man he lay
whopping hoe.

Thus talking & walking thé came to a place

A man and a maid

came to a

shady place.

Inuironed about with trees & with grasse,

The maid shee, &c.

8

12

16

20

He shifted his hand wheras he had placet,
hee handled her knees instead of her wast,
The Maid, &c.

He shiffted his hand till hee came to her knees,

he tickeled her, & shee opened her thyhes,

yett s[t]ill shee, &c.

He hottered & totered, & there was a line

that drew him on forward; he went on amaine;
yett still shee, &c.

He light in a hole ere he was aware!

the lane itt was streat; he had not gone farr,

but shee fell a kissing, hye!

& he lay drooping, hoe, & he lay drooping, hoe.

"My Billy, my pilly! how now?"quoth shee;
"gett vp againe, Billy, if that thou louest me;
yett still he Lay, &c.

He tickled her,

she kissed him,

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