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To LAIS.
What euer thou be that claimes or courts my deareAnd in my absence would supply my place,
If courts thou, I pray thee to forbeare,
Rob not my right, and latelie granted grace:
For if at were, I friendly craue thy case,
And thou had credit as I sometime bade,
Were it not wrong, if I should proudlie prease
To raue thy right? yes I may surely saide:
Be who thou wilt, I challenge thee therefore,
That with thy Daffings deauis my Lais eare;
Cease from thy sute, and in to time forbeare,
Els we can be companions true no more.
For put the case thou speed, thou gaines these two,
A facill Dame, and of a friend a foe.
Casta mane nec te lusus, nec munera vincant.
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