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LXX.
AGAINST THE GOD OF LOVE.
Blind brutal Boy, that with thy bou abuses
Leill leisome love by lechery and lust,
Judge, jakanapis and jougler maist vnj[ust,]
If in thy rageing resone thou refuises;
To be thy chiftanes changers ay thou chuisis
To beir thy baner, so they be robust.
Fals tratur, Turk, betrayer vnder trust,
Quhy maks thou makrels of the modest Muses?
Art thou a god? No—bot a gok disguysit;
A bluiter buskit lyk a belly blind,
With wings and quaver waving with the wind;
A plane playmear for vanitie devysit.
Thou art a stirk, for all thy staitly stylis;
And these, good geese, vhom sik a god begylis.
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