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Mel Heliconium

or, Poeticall Honey, Gathered out of The Weeds of Parnassus ... By Alexander Rosse
  
  

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BELIDES.


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Children obey your parents, but if they
Bid you do mischief, you must not obey:
For sure you must not yield obedience
Against Gods Laws, against your conscience,
Least with these cruell sisters you partake,
Of their vain toiling in the Stygian lake.
Let all beware of sin, which men beguils
With her inticing looks, and flattering smiles.
She hath a virgins face, but traitors fist,
Which without grace we hardly can resist.
Let no man joyn himself to such a wife,
Whose mouth presents a kisse, her hand a knife.