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Women are mens shadowes.
1
Follow a shadow, it flies you,Seeme to fly it, it will pursue.
So court a Mistresse, she denies you,
Let her alone, she will court you.
Say, are not women truly then
Styl'd but the shadowes of us men?
2
At morne and even, shades are longest,At Noone they are, or short or none.
So men at weakest, they are strongest,
But grant us perfect th'are not knowne.
Say are not women truly then
Styl'd but the shadows of us men.
Per Ben. Johnson.
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