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A Dialogue betwixt Phillis and Clorillo.

I prethee keep my sheep for me: Clorillo, wilt thou, tell?

First, let me have a kiss of thee, and I will keep them well.

If thou a while but to my little flock will look, thou shalt have this imbroidred skrip and silver hook.

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No other favour or reward I crave, but one poor kisse.

A kisse thou must not have.

And why?

Such enticements Maids must fly: this Garland thou shalt have of Roses and of Lillies.

Nor Skrip, nor Hook, nor Garland sweetest Phillis, do I require, to kisse thy fresh and Rosie lip is onely my desire.

Take then a kisse, and let me goe, till I return thy care upon my flocks bestow.

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Sweet sweet is that kisse that doth with true and just desire as much another give, as to it self require.