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First Exam (pt 1) Flashcards

1
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A haples kynde of lyfe is this I weare,
Moch watche I dure, and weary toilings daier

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Queen Elizabeth I

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I serve the route, and all their follies beare;
I suffer pryde, and suppe full hard assaise;

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Queen Elizabeth I

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To others will, my life is all addrest
and no ware so, as might content me best

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Queen Elizabeth I

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The dowbt off future foes exiles my present joye
and wytte me warnes to shunne suche snares as threaten mine anoye

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Queen Elizabeth I

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For falshode nowe dothe flowe and subjects faithe dothe ebbe
which shuld not be yf reason rulde or wisdome weaved the webbe

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Queen Elizabeth I

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but clowdes of joyes untryed do cloke aspirynge mynds
which turnes to raigne of late repent bi chaunged course of windes

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Queen Elizabeth I

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the toppe of hope supprest the roote upreard shalbe
and fruictles all there grafted guile, as shortlye you shall see

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Queen Elizabeth I

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8
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the dayseled eyes with pride, which greate ambition blyndes
shalbe unseelde bi worthie wyghts, whose foresight falshode finds

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Queen Elizabeth I

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the dawghter off debatte, that discord aye doth sowe
shall reape no gayne, where former rule styll peace hathe tawght to know

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Queen Elizabeth I

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10
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no Forrene banished wight shall ancore in this port
our realme brokes not seditious sects, lett them els where resort

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Queen Elizabeth I

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my rustye sword throwghe rest shall first his eydge imploye
to poule there toppes that sekes such dhaunge or gape for future joye

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Queen Elizabeth I

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12
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Ah silly pugge wert thou so sore afraid,
mourne not (my Wat) nor be thou so dismaid,
it passeth fickle fortunes powere and skill,
to force my harte to thinke thee any ill.

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Queen Elizabeth I

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No fortune base thou saiest shall alter thee,
and may so blinde a Witche so conquere me?
No no my pugg, thoughe fortune were not blinde,
assure thyself she could not rule my mynde.

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Queen Elizabeth I

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14
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fortune I knowe somtimes doth conquere kinges,
and rules and raignes on earth and earthly thinges
but never thinke fortune can beare the sway
if vertue watche and will her not obay

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Queen Elizabeth I

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15
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Ne chose I thee by fickle fortunes rede,
ne she shall force me alter with suche spede
But if to try this mistres jest with thee,…
Pull up thy harte suppresse thy brakishe tears
torment thee not, but put away thy feares

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Queen Elizabeth I

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16
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Dead to all joyes and livinge unto woe
slaine quite by her that here gave wiseman blowe
revive againe and live without all drede
the lesse afraid the better thou shalt spede

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Queen Elizabeth I

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17
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The dread of future foes exyle my present joy
and wit mee warns to shunne soche snares as thretten myne annoy

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Queen Elizabeth I

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18
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ffor fallshood now doth flow and subjects fayth doth ebbe
which should not be yf reason rewld or wysdome wove the webbe

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Queen Elizabeth I

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19
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but clowdes of joyes untried, doth cloke aspiring minds
which turne to rage of late report, by chaunged course of minds

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Queen Elizabeth I

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20
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the topps of hope suppose, the roote of Rue shalbee
and fruteles of their graffed guile as the shortlie yow shall see

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Queen Elizabeth I

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21
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The dazeled eyes with pride, with great ambition blynde
shalbe unsealled by worthie wights, whose foresight falshood fyndes

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Queen Elizabeth I

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22
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the daughter of debate, that discord ay doth sow
shall reape no gaine where former rule, still peace hath taught to know

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Queen Elizabeth I

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23
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no fforain banisht wight, shall ankor in this Port
our realm brooks no seditous sects, let them elswhere resort

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Queen Elizabeth I

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24
Q

my rustie sword through rest, shall first his edge imploy
to poll the topps that seekes such chaunge or gapes for further joy

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Queen Elizabeth I

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25
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your song is welcome, melissus, a most welcome gift
yet more welcome is the sweet image of your soul
but how great a cause moves you, what impulse urges
that, though free-born, you want to be a slave?

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Queen Elizabeth I

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26
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it is hardly our custom to keep poets in narrow confines
or to restrict their rights even in the smallest degree.

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Queen Elizabeth I

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27
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rather you would be made free, your mistress
would loose your chains, if you had been in a servile state.

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Queen Elizabeth I

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28
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but you are prince of poets; i am the poet’s subject, when
you make me the amtter of your lofty verse
what king would be ashamed to cherish such a poet
who turns us from heroes into gods

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Queen Elizabeth I

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29
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lok an bowe downe thyne care o Lorde
from thy bryght spheare behould and see
thy hand maide and thy handy worke
amoungest thy pristes offeringe to thee
zeale for incesne reachinge the skyes
my selfe and septer sacryifisc

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Queen Elizabeth I

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30
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My sowle assende this holy place
ascribe him strengthe and singe his prayse
for he refraynethe peryures spyrite
and hathe done wonders in my daies
he made the wynds and waters rise
to scatter all myne enemyes

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Queen Elizabeth I

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31
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this josephes lorde and israells god
the gyry piller and dayes clowde
that saved his sainctws from wiched men
and drenchet the honor of the prowde
and hathe preservud in tender love
the spirit of his turtle dove

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Queen Elizabeth I

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32
Q

come over the born bessy,
come over the born bessy
swete bessy come over to me
and I shall the take
and my dere lady make
before all other that ever I see

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William Birch

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33
Q

my thinke i hear a voice,
at whom i do rejoyce
and aunswer the now I shall
tel me I say
what art thou that biddes me com away
and so earnestly doost me call

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William Birch

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34
Q

I am thy lover faire
hath chose the to mine heir
and my name is mery englande
therefore come away
and make no more delaye
swete bessie give me thy hande

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William Birch

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35
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here is my hand
my dere lover englande
I am thine both with mind and hart
for ever to endure,
thou maiest be sure
untill death us two depart

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William Birch

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36
Q

lady this long space
have I loved thy grace
more then I durste well saye
hoping at the last
when all stormes were past
for to see this joyfull daye

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William Birch

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37
Q

yet my lover England
ye shall understand
how fortune on me did lowre
I was tombled and tost
from pillar to post
and prisoner in the towre

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William Birch

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38
Q

dere lady we do know
how that tirauntes not a fewe
went about for to seke thy bloude
and contrarie to right
they did what they might
that now bare two faces in one hood

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William Birch

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39
Q

then was I caried to wodstock
and kept close under locke
that no man mighte with me speake
and agaisnt all reason
they accuded me of treason
and tirably thei did me threate

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William Birch

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40
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oh my lover faire
my dearlinge and mine heire
full sore for the i did lament
but no man durst speak
but thei would him threat
and quickly make him repent

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William Birch

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41
Q

then was I delivered their hands
but was faine to put in bands
and good suerties for my forth comminge
not from my house to departe
nor no where els to sterte
as though i had ben away runninge

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William Birch

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42
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why dere lady i trow
those mad men did not knowe
that ye were doughter unto kinge hary
and a princesse of birth
one of the noblest on earth
and sister unto quene mary

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William Birch

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43
Q

yes yet i must forgeve
al such as do live
if they wil hereafter amend
and for those that are gone
god forgeve them every one
and his mercy on them extend

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William Birch

44
Q

oh swete virgin pure
longe may ye endure
to reigne over us in this lande
for your workes to accord
ye are the handmaid of the lord
for he hath blessed you with his hand

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William Birch

45
Q

my swete realme be obedient
to gods holy commaundement
and my procedings embrace
and for that that is abused
shalbe better used
and that within shorte space

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William Birch

46
Q

can the lines be read from top to bottom and bottom to top

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George Puttenham

47
Q

So him at first De nance commanded was to kill
but he most stoutlie did refuse this guiltlesse blood to spill

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Anne Dowriche

48
Q

Shall I said he consent to doo this fearfull thing
to shed this blood because I am commanded by the king

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Anne Dowriche

49
Q

no god forbid I know I have a soule to save
so bloodie spot to save my life my name shall never have

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Anne Dowriche

50
Q

I know there is a day, a day that saints desire
when of our deeds the king above a reckoning will require

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Anne Dowriche

51
Q

obaie the king thats true in things that honhest be
when I obey in whicked hests wo worth the time to me

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Anne Dowriche

52
Q

a murder to be done the king doth now request
my god commands the contrary now which to chuse were best

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Anne Dowriche

53
Q

the king doth threaten death and god doth threaten hell
if for the king i should forsake my god should I do well

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Anne Dowriche

54
Q

praisd be dianas faire and harmles light
praisd be the dewes wherwith she moists the ground
praisd be hir beames the glorie of the night
praisd be hir powre by which all powres abound

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Sir Walter Ralegh

55
Q

Praisd be hir nimphs whith whom she decks the woods
praisd be hir knights in whom true honor lives
praisd be that force by which she moves the floods
let that diana shine which all these gives

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Sir Walter Ralegh

56
Q

in heaven queene she is among the speares
in ay she mistres like makes all things pure
eternitie in hir oft chaunge she bears
she beautie is by hir the faire endure

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Sir Walter Ralegh

57
Q

time weares hir not she doth his chariot guide
mortalitie belowe hir orbe is plaste
by hir the vertue of the starrs downe slide
in hir is vertues perfect image caste

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Sir Walter Ralegh

58
Q

a knowlege pure it is hir worth to kno
with circes let them dwell that thinke not so

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Sir Walter Ralegh

59
Q

Disswasion hearing her assigne my helpe
and seeing that consent I did detect
did many remoraes to me propose
as dulnesse and my memories defect
the difficultie of attaining lore
my time and sex with many others more

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Rachel Speght

60
Q

Which when I heard my minde was much perplext
and as a horse new come into the field
who with a harquebuz at first doth start
so did this shot make me recoyle and yeeld
but of my feare when some did notice take
in my behalfe they this reply did make

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Rachel Speght

61
Q

first quoth desire disswasion hold thy peace
these oppositions come not from above
quoth truth they cannot spring from reasons roote
and therefore now thou shalt no victor prove
no quoth industrie be assured this
her friends shall make thee of thy purpose misse

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Rachel Speght

62
Q

for with my sickle i will cut away
all obstacles that in her way can grow
and by the issue of her owne attempt
I’le make thee labor omnia vincet know
quoth truth and sith her sex thou do’st object
thy folly i by reason will detect

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Rachel Speght

63
Q

both man and woman of three parts consist
which paul doth bodie soul and spirit call
and from the soule three faculties arise
the mind the will the power then wherefore shall
a woman have her intellect in vaine
or not endevour knowledge to attaine

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Rachel Speght

64
Q

the talent god doth give must be imploy’d
his owne with vantage he must have againe
all parts and faculties were made for use
the god of knowledge nothing gave in vaine
twas maries choyce our saviour did approve
because that she the better part did love

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Rachel Speght

65
Q

cleobulina and demophila
with telesilla as historians tell
whose fame doth live though they have long bin dead
did all of them in poetrie excell
a roman matron that cornelia hight
an eloquent and learned style did write

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Rachel Speght

66
Q

hypatia in astronomie had skill
aspatia was rheth’ricke so expert
as that duke pericles of her did learne
areta did devote her selfe to art
and by consent (which shewes she was no foole)
she did succeed her father in his schoole

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Rachel Speght

67
Q

and many others here i could produce
who were in science counted excellent
but these examples which i have rehearst
to shew they error are sufficient
thus having sayd she turn’d her speech to mee
that in my purpose i might constant bee

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Rachel Speght

68
Q

my friend quoth she regard not vulgar talke
for dung-hill cocks as tprecious stones will spurne
and swine-like natures prize not cristall streams
contemned mire and mud will serve thier turne
good purpose seldome oppositions want
but constant mindes disswasion cannot daunt

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Rachel Speght

69
Q

shall every blast disturbe the saylors peace
or boughes and bushes travellers affright
true valour doth not start at every noyse
shall combates must instruct for greater fight
disdaine to bee with every dart dismayd
tis childish to be suddenly affrayd

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Rachel Speght

70
Q

as close as you your weding kept
yet now the trueth i here
which you (yer now) might me have told
hwat nede you nay to swere

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Isabella Whitney

71
Q

you know I always wisht you well
so wyll i during lyfe
but sith you shal a husband be
god sent you a good wyfe

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Isabella Whitney

72
Q

nd this(where so you shal become)
full boldly may you boast
that once you hada s true a love
as dwelt in any coast

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Isabella Whitney

73
Q

and this(where so you shal become)
full boldly may you boast
that once you hada s true a love
as dwelt in any coast

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Isabella Whitney

74
Q

whose constantnesse had never quaild
if you had not begonne
and yet iti is not so far past
but might agayne be wonne

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Isabella Whitney

75
Q

if you so would yea and not change
so long as lyfe should last
but yf that needes you marry must
then farewell hope is past

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Isabella Whitney

76
Q

and if you cannot be content
to lead a single lyf
(although the same right quiet be)
then take me to your wife

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Isabella Whitney

77
Q

so shall the promises be kept
that you so firmly made
now chuse whether ye wyll be true
or be of sinons trade

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Isabella Whitney

78
Q

whose trade if that you long shal use
it shal your kindred stayne
example take by many a one
whose falshood now is playne

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Isabella Whitney

79
Q

as by eneas first of all
who dyd poor dido leave
causing the queen by his untrueth
with sword her hart to cleave

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Isabella Whitney

80
Q

also i finde that theseus did
his faithfull love forsake
stealing away within the night
before she dyd awake

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Isabella Whitney

81
Q

jason that came of noble race
two ladies did beguile
i muse how he durst shew his face
to them that new his wile

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Isabella Whitney

82
Q

for when he by medeas arte
had got the fleece of gold
and also had of her that time
al kynd of things he would

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Isabella Whitney

83
Q

he toke his ship and fled away
regarding not the vowes
that he dyd make so faithfully
unto his loving spowes

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Isabella Whitney

84
Q

how durst he trust the suging seas
knowing himselfe forsworne
why dyd he scape safe to the land
before the ship was torne

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Isabella Whitney

85
Q

I think king aeolus styad the winds
and neptune ruld the sea
then might he boldly passe the waves
no perils could him slea

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Isabella Whitney

86
Q

but if his falsehed had to them
bin manifest before
they would have rent the ship as soone
as he had gon from shore

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Isabella Whitney

87
Q

now may you heare how falsenes is
made manyfest in time
although they that commit the same
think it a veniall crime

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Isabella Whitney

88
Q

for they for thier unfaithfulnes
did get perpetuall fame
fame wherefore dyd i terme it so
i shoudl have cald it shame

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Isabella Whitney

89
Q

t hteseus be let jason passe
let paris also scape
that brought destruction unto troy
all through the grecian rape

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Isabella Whitney

90
Q

and unto me a troylus be
if not you may compare
with any of these parsons that
above expressed are

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Isabella Whitney

91
Q

but if i can not please your minde
for wants that rest in me
wed whom you list I am content
your refuse for to be

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Isabella Whitney

92
Q

it shall suffise me simple soule
of thee to be forsaken
and it may chance although not yet
you wish you had me taken

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Isabella Whitney

93
Q

but rather then you should have cause
to wish this throuhg your wyfe
i wysh to her ere you her have
no more but losse of lyfe

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Isabella Whitney

94
Q

e that shall so happy be
of thee to be elect
I wish her vertues to be such
she nede not be suspect

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Isabella Whitney

95
Q

i rather wish her helens face
then one of helens trade
with chastness of penelope
the which did never fade

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Isabella Whitney

96
Q

a lucres for her constancy
and thisbie for her trueth
if such thou have then peto be
not paris that were rueth

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Isabella Whitney

97
Q

perchance ye will think this thing rare
in on woman to fynd
save helens beauty al the rest
the gods have me assignd

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Isabella Whitney

98
Q

these words i do not spek thinking
from thy new love to turne thee
thou knowst by prof what i deserve
i nede not to inform thee

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Isabella Whitney

99
Q

but let that passe would god i had
cassandraes gift me lent
then either thy yll cchaunce or mine
my foresight might prevent

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Isabella Whitney

100
Q

but all in vayne for this i seeke
wishes may not attaine it
therefore may hap to me what shall
and i cannot refraine it

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Isabella Whitney

101
Q

wherefore i pray god be my guide
and also thee defenc
no worser thne i wish my selfe
untill thy lyfe shal end

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Isabella Whitney

102
Q

which life i pray god may agayne
king nestors lyfe renew
and after that your soule may rest
amongst the heavenly crew

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Isabella Whitney

103
Q

therto i wish king xerxis wealth
or els king cressus gould
with as much rest and quietnesse
as man may have on mould

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Isabella Whitney

104
Q

and when you shall this letter have
let it be kept in store
for she that sent the same hath sworn
as yet to send no more

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Isabella Whitney

105
Q

and now farewel for why at large
my mind is here exprest
the which you may perceive if that
you do peruse the rest

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Isabella Whitney

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