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Satire 21.

[Nothing's hard vnto a minde that's willing]

Nothing's hard vnto a minde that's willing,
It's seene by Winda in hir nightly drilling,
Harke Musketeers: if Musketeers youle make,
And learne all posternes right, hir course but take,
Shee eu'ry night as in hir bedd shee lies,
Dus all hir posternes, 'fore shee e're let flies,
Shee cockes, shee tries hir match, shee gardes hir pann,
Which done, sh'ungardes it, and presentes it than,
And with as good a grace as you'd desire
Shee blowes hir match, and brauely then giues fire,
Then dus shee caste about, prune & blowe,
Rechardge & to hir former posternes goe.
Souldiers; Drilling's not hard, If you'd doe soe.