Strange Histories, or, Songes and Sonets, of Kings, Princes, Dukes, Lordes, Ladyes, Knights, and Gentlemen Very pleasant either to be read or songe: and a most excellent warning for all estates [by Thomas Deloney] |
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[Sprinks being asked what meates his Mistris loued] |
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[Sprinks being asked what meates his Mistris loued]
Sprinks being asked what meates his Mistris loued:
He answered thus: quoth he, What's that to you?
But since so farre you haue in this mee moued,
Ile speake my minde, and therefore marke me now.
He answered thus: quoth he, What's that to you?
But since so farre you haue in this mee moued,
Ile speake my minde, and therefore marke me now.
My
Mistris loues no Woodcocks,
yet loues to picke the bones:
Nor loues she any Iewels,
but they be precious stones.
yet loues to picke the bones:
Nor loues she any Iewels,
but they be precious stones.
My Mistris loues but few meates,
yet loues to taste of all:
My Mistris loues no wrastling,
yet loues to take the fall.
yet loues to taste of all:
My Mistris loues no wrastling,
yet loues to take the fall.
My Mistris loues a Free man,
but yet she loues no waster:
My Mistris loues no Cuckoulds,
and yet she loues my Master.
but yet she loues no waster:
My Mistris loues no Cuckoulds,
and yet she loues my Master.
My Mistris loueth trueth,
yet best she loueth lying:
My Mistris loues not youth.
whose nature lyes a dying.
yet best she loueth lying:
My Mistris loues not youth.
whose nature lyes a dying.
My Mistris hates Tabacco,
but well she loues the Pipe:
My Mistris loues no rotten Fruite,
but Medlers moyst and ripe.
but well she loues the Pipe:
My Mistris loues no rotten Fruite,
but Medlers moyst and ripe.
My Mistris loues the yard
that lackes no inch of measure:
And thus I haue declared,
my Mistris chiefest pleasure.
that lackes no inch of measure:
And thus I haue declared,
my Mistris chiefest pleasure.
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