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[A virgine faire, betwixt whose milke white]
A virgine faire, betwixt whose milke whitePaps I sometime lay,
When I was borne, the midwiues part
And nurses too did play,
To whom I spent, my formost age
Working both day and night,
And recompensed her taken care
With profit and delight,
Vntill by fate, without my fault
In prison I was cast,
And held in giues, which I had made,
From which breaking at last:
Such change and chaunces hath the world,
A dorage made me blinde,
In amorous sportes I kild my selfe
Foole: propagating kinde.
In the spring time, a yoong damsell putteth in her bosome, the egs of a silke worme: which being disclosed, the yoong worme, ere it be long, will fall to his naturall taske, till he hath inclosed himselfe in his huske. From which when he is broken out, he ioineth with the female, for preseruation of his kinde, and then voluntarily dieth.
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