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Why, Nicolas

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Why, Nicolas, why doest thou make such haste
After thy brother? Why goest thou so? To taste

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Of changed lyfe with hym the better state?
Better? yea best of all, that thought can rate.
Or, did the dreed of wretched world driue thee
Leste thou this afterfall should hap to see:
Mauortian moods, Saturnian furies fell,
Of tragicall turmoyls the haynous hell?
O, whose good thews in brief cannot be told,
The hartiest mate, that euer trod the mold:
If our farewell, that here liue in distresse,
Auayl, farewell: the rest teares do suppresse.