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One Scoffe drawes on another.
A gentle-woman, (as her loosenesse sayes)For Gownes Loose-body fashion now adayes;
And other ornaments that prooue her so:
As Fanne and Maske, (our ages Gentle show)
Was mette within the Citties walking field,
By one, that her with curious eye beheld,
And after viewing well from head to foote,
Conceiu'd a Iest, and thus he put her too't:
Lifting her Garment vp, was bare and torne,
He kist the same; whereat she turn'd in scorne,
Asking the cause. Quoth hee, without offence,
Antiquitie I still doe reuerence.
O sir, (sayd shee) if auncient thinges be deare,
I haue a place, elder by twentie yeare
Then is my Gowne, or any thing I weare,
To please your lippes, they shall be welcome there.
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