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His vnwilling Farewell to PENELOPE.
A frind some time to Thracian Cotys send,In signe of loue, a vessell rich and rare:
But back againe before the bearer wend,
Hee brake the same in peeces heere and there;
Not for contempt, but to preuent my care,
I brake this gift which thou hast brought, said hee,
For if my seruants breake the fame, I sweare,
They should been bate, and I incensed bee.
I Cotys-like (proud Dame, to ease my paine,
And that thou be not forst to heare my cries)
Must leaue to loue; nor shall my Songs againe
Thy surfet breed, nor come before thine eyes:
Not, that I loath, where I so long did loue,
Thou art vnkind, and I must needs remoue.
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