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44 To the Ladies of the Queenes Priuy-chamber, at the making of their perfumed priuy at Richmond
The Booke hanged in chaines saith thus:
Faire Dames, if any tooke in scorne, and spiteMe, that Misacmos Muse in mirth did write,
To satisfie the sinne, loe, here in chaines,
For aye to hang, my Master he ordaines.
Yet deeme the deed to him no derogation,
Sith here you see, feele, smell that his conueyance
Hath freed this noysome place from all annoyance.
Now iudge you, that the work mock, enuie, taunt,
Whose seruice in this place may make most vaunt:
If vs, or you, to praise it, were most meet,
You, that made sowre, or vs, that make it sweet?
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