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Satire 18.

[When as my creame is sowre, I straight-waies meet]

When as my creame is sowre, I straight-waies meet
With suger which dus make my sowre creame sweete,
And when my drinke is sowre, or that waies blame,
I meet with twentie things to mende the same.
But faith doe what I cann, yet for my life,
I cannot mende the sowrenes of my wife.
Yet honny'd termes vppon hir eu'rie howre
I duelie powre: yet still my wife is sowre.
May not J doubt hir sowrenes ne're will fleete,
When such sweet thinges wantes powere to make hir sweeete.