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Cassandra, a Mayde.Cass.
Aye mee, vnhappy wenche, that I must liue the day,
To see Andrugio tymeles dye, my brother and my stay.
The onely meane, God wot, that should our house aduaunce,
Who in the hope of his good hap, must dy through wanton chance:
O blynde affectes in loue, whose tormentes none can tell,
Yet wantons wyll hyde fyre, and frost, yea hassard death, nay hell:
To taste thy sowre sweete frutes, digested styll with care,
Fowle fall thee loue, thy lightning ioyes, hath blasted my welfare
Thou fyerst affection fyrst, within my brothers brest.
Thou mad'st him craue and haue, a proofe of Venus meede,
For which foule act he is adiudgd, eare long to lose his heade.
The lawe is so seuere, in scourging fleshly sinne,
As marriage to worke after mends doth seldome fauor win.
A law first made of zeale, but wrested much amis.
Faults should be measured by desart, but all is one in this,
The lecher fyerd with lust, is punished no more,
Then he which fel through force of loue, whose mariage salues his sore:
So that poore I dispayre, of my Andrugios lyfe,
O would my dayes myght end with his, for to appease my stryfe.
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