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III

[Haue I vow'd and must not breake it?]

This is the ditty of the third song.

Haue I vow'd and must not breake it?
Fondly vow dis wisely broken,
Do i loue and dare not speake it?
Silence doth no loud betoken:
Thus I bind in this my breaking,
And I am in silence speaking.
Loue is bound though I seeme free,
Wrapt in deepe affections snare,
Loue I must how so ere it be,
Too late men say doth come beware.
Then vowe no more sith vowes are vaine,
Wrapt in deepe affections chayne.