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Coyness in Love.
What means this Strangenesse now of late?
Since Time doth Truth approve:
This distance may consist with State;
It cannot stand with Love.
Since Time doth Truth approve:
This distance may consist with State;
It cannot stand with Love.
'Tis either cunning or distrust,
That do such ways allow:
The first is base, the last injust;
Let neither blemish you.
That do such ways allow:
The first is base, the last injust;
Let neither blemish you.
If you intend to draw me on,
You over act your part:
And if it be to have me gon,
You need not halfe this Art.
You over act your part:
And if it be to have me gon,
You need not halfe this Art.
Speak but a word, or do but cast
One Look that seems to frown,
I'le give you all the love that's past,
The rest shall be mine own.
One Look that seems to frown,
I'le give you all the love that's past,
The rest shall be mine own.
And such a faire and equall way
On both sides none can blame,
Since every man is bound to play
The fairest of his Game.
On both sides none can blame,
Since every man is bound to play
The fairest of his Game.
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