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Melancholie Conceits.

Rapier lie there, and there my hat and feather,
Drawe my silke curtaine to obscure the light,
Goose-quill and I must ioine a while together:
Lady forbeare I pray, keepe out of sight,
Call pearle away, let one remoue him hence,
Your skreeking Parrot will distract my sence.
Would I were neere the rogue that cryeth blacke,
Buy a new Almanacke, doth vexe me to:
Forbid the maid shee winde not vp the iacke,
Take hence my watch it makes too much a doe,
Let none come at me deerest friend or kin,
Who ere it be, I am not now within.