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[When thou didst think I did not love, then didst thou fawn on me]
When thou didst think I did not love, then didst thou fawn on me,
Now whē thou find'st that I do prove as kinde, as kinde may be,
Love faints in thee.
Now whē thou find'st that I do prove as kinde, as kinde may be,
Love faints in thee.
What way to fix the Mercury of thy ill fixt mind,
Me thinks it were good policy for me to turn unkind,
to make thee kind.
Me thinks it were good policy for me to turn unkind,
to make thee kind.
And though I might my selfe excuse with imitating thee,
Yet will I no example use that may bewray in mee
lightness to bee.
Yet will I no example use that may bewray in mee
lightness to bee.
Nor will I yet good nature stain to buy at so great cost,
She which before I did obtain, I make account almost
my labour lost.
She which before I did obtain, I make account almost
my labour lost.
But since I gave thee once my heart my constancy shall show,
That though thou play the womans part & from a friend turn foe,
men do not soe.
That though thou play the womans part & from a friend turn foe,
men do not soe.
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