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[She which would not I would chuse]

She which would not I would chuse,
She which would I would refuse,
Venus could my minde but tame,
But not satisfie the same.
Inticements offered I despise,
And deny'd I slightly prize:
I would neither glut my minde,
Nor yet too much torment finde.
Thrice girt Diana doth not take me,
Nor Venus naked joyfull make me,
The first no pleasure hath to joy me,
& the last enough to cloy me.
But a crafty Wench I'de have,
That can tell the art I crave,
And joyne at one, in one these two,
I will, and yet I will not doe.
She which would not, &c.